Kenneth Brannagh is still trying to do Hamlet

Rating: Null/10 (28 August 2011)

And oh my, is it a pitiful experience! Loki is just like some new evaluation of Laertes, while at the beginning he may seem like Horatio, that is a go-between for the audience. But even if Odin is some sort of ghost - Hamlet the father, would you trust Hopkins to be the part? Or Skarsgaard to partake in that mannerism that characterizes both, and alleviate the comic character when in-jokes happen concerning his Scandinavian character? I wouldn't think so.
Is Nathalie Portman the new Ophelia? Let me laugh with her whining, lame voice. This is absurd and just plain unconvincing. She has no sense at all of what being in a comic is; she tries to redeem it by being totally thrown off (well, she tries?).
Hemsworth is juicy - just for a glimpse, and what is being a god, or a mortal, or a in-between state, let me yawn.
The side-effects, to call them that, were good. But that is all.
Why has it got to be so unimaginative? Why? Some cuts were really atrocious, as if we could all take in the comic thrust of it all. But no, just plain no.