Awful.

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2019)

I am, and always will be a huge fan of Marvel, however, this is possibly the worse movie i have ever seen. There is more character development in any one of the Thor comics, than this movie. How it has managed to score 7/10 on IMDB beggars belief. Who can possibly like such a meaningless and dull movie. I cannot believe that J. Michael Straczynski actually gave his name to this, let alone that he was responsible for the script. I was expecting something memorable and intelligent, after all J.Michael Straczynski's writing for Marvel's Thor Comic run in 2007 was nothing short of a game changer, intelligent, humorous and memorable. But this movie ! Movies these days have to have some character development so that the characters aren't completely 2 dimensional. This movie was like an explosion in a special effects studio. One CGI scene after another with some pretty bad acting sequences in between. The Marvel Thor comics have always been quite clever at incorporating Norse mythology into the stories. Wasn't Dr Donald Blake meant to be Thor when he originally found the hammer? Here we have Natalie Portman as Jane saying her ex was Dr Donald Blake and gurning. What was all that about? Then we have the 'blink and you've missed it' scene where Thor transforms from a war mongering selfish oaf, to Odin's favourite son again. What was the dramatic sequence of events to cause such a transformation, because i think i missed them? The characters were the embodiments of a cliched am dram production. The simpering stormchasing Jane who has a thing for buff men. The old scientist dude who says 'no' to everything. The geeky character who says geeky things. Please. Marvel, please treat your viewers with a little more intelligence than this. Do yourself a favour. If you like Thor, read the comic. I can't believe Sir Kenneth Branagh was involved in this either. The beautifully executed Wallander series, with minimalist acting and subtle imagery and emotional acting and dramatic tension. How can this be the same person? Maybe the film started off as a clever and witty idea, but became a movie by numbers that was executed by a committee and whose target audience was aimed at children who will buy merchandise?