Strange

Rating: 5/10 (5 May 2011)

Went to see Thor last night with some high expectations, after reading some of the reviews here. And, as much as i would have liked to enjoy the movie, i did not. Don't get me wrong, using comic heroes and comic book plots in films proved to be successful. That's why the whole world knows about Superman and Batman. But now, we've got a group of lesser known superheroes aiming at our money. One of them is mighty Thor with his deadly super-hammer weapon. I am not going to write about the plot, and character development, although Thor is very well developed (gimme the same stuff the actor was eating to get that body in just SIX months!). We want visuals from this type of films, and screw the rest. Producers, directors, actors and all others involved in this multimillion dollar project realize that viewers want entertainment, but do they deliver? Well, they do, most of the time. I only have a couple of questions: 1) Why did they spend money on expensive stars in secondary roles (A. Hopkins and N.Portman) instead of making better visual FX? 2) Why the computer drawn villains are so primitive (all ice giants look the same, and that ironman mummy is unimaginative)? 3) When will producers realize, that shaky camera in fighting scenes makes people dizzy? 4) Did they use Transformers to model some of the characters armor? I guess the answers to these questions will be more clear after you've seen the movie. But don't expect anything epic. It's just an action film about people running around, killing things and destroying stuff for no particular reason. And it doesn't even matter if you will not like Thor, because he'll be back!