Good acting, awful writing

Rating: 7/10 (10 May 2011)

I'll do my best to not spoil anything in the rather weak plot.
Thor wants to kill the bad guys. He's exiled, and then for no evident or explained reason undergoes an overnight change from arrogant, angry, defiant, rude brute to a kind, wise, peaceful theologian.
His brother, who at this point has exactly what he wants, does something that could serve no purpose but to jeopardize what he already has. He serves to gain nothing, but he's mucking up what he has. He's SUPPOSED to be the clever trickster, not Hitler. But then he goes off trying to kill the bad guys.
Thor takes it personally that his brother is doing exactly what he wanted to do the day before, and sets out to stop him.
At the end a piece of MACHINERY is destroyed, and apparently no one in this advanced civilization that ages gracefully over 2000 years can rebuild one.
The friends of Thor, both mortal and immortal are never humanized enough to care about them, in fact you'll only remember the name of natalie portman. The rest of the characters are all real "that one guy" sorta people. The only characters with any development are thor, loki, and oden, but only oden's makes sense. Thor just snaps into good-guy mode, and loki goes on a 5-yr old tantrum when he finds out who he is. Nothing is explained about whether they're immortal by relics, or born immortal, or how they live forever and have strength. Are they just humans with relics?
Shield plays the antagonist for half the movie. They're not playing the secretive in- and-out, we don't exist, POOF guys. They're just the FBI bumbling around. I think I saw mulder and skully. They're stealing stuff in broad daylight and throwing their name around like they're accepting applicants. They don't seem to know whats going on at all, or care, they just want to steal one scientists data for some reason never clearly explained. They then give it back, and with one line of dialogue, are friends with thor. Well thank goodness.
The graphics are 2 years ago, and the backdrops look 5 years ago. Rather akin to the new star wars backdrops that are just too pristine to be real. No grit or texture.
Overall, the movie was made to introduce thor for the avengers movie. I'm concerned Green Lantern will go the same way. There are several name drops of other characters in the Marvel universe, and after the credits they show a clip from some upcoming marvel movie. The movie is a lead in, not it's own real entity. Save your money, watch it at a friends place sometime, no rush.