Great Movie

Rating: 9/10 (7 July 2012)

I really didn't have any expectations before seeing this movie. A lot of these comic based films are really just a blend of special affects and action.
However, this film was actually really good. The characters and their relationships are complex, including the bad guy, who is very inconsistent in his badness and even inspires pity.
The story is very well written and the acting excellent. This movie even carries a message about pride and being a good leader and a good person. Something that is lacking in many of the shallow action flicks for kids these days.
I also like how the romance in the film stayed innocent yet the love interest added to the plot at the same time, without becoming too overdone.
I liked this film so much that looked forward to seeing "The Avengers". Unfortunately "The Avengers" was very disappointing for me. For me, that movie was pretty much like watching someone playing a video game. Endless special effects + action, with very little acting or intelligent dialog. I wondered how the Avengers could be so different so I looked up both movies here in IMDb and realized that they had different directors.
The director of Thor, Kenneth Charles Branagh, is also the director of "Rabbit Proof Fence" and "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein". Both of those are movies I really like as well. So that makes sense.