Half great - half not so great

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2011)

Well this evening my friend's wanted to go out to the cinema, one of which being a huge Marvel fan. I saw the trailer for Thor and thought it looked alright but I didn't have high hopes for it.
I really was blown away in the opening 30 minutes of the movie. The effects were great and the movie seemed to have a decent story going for it. The camera angles were great, not all shaky and zoomed like most action movies seem to like to do nowadays.
Unfortunately as the movie progressed I feel it got a little weak. As soon as we are brought to earth the movie decides to make clumsy jokes and lightens the mood by repeating the same joke about 4 times within 10 minutes. I found it strange that the mood had changed so quickly.
And before I continue I have to say, Kat Denning's character 'Darcy Lewis' made the most annoying and out of place jokes I have heard in some time in a movie.
However the thing I found with the movie is that all of a sudden it becomes great again, then drops a bit, etc etc. In places I felt that they couldn't quite make up which audience they were aiming for.
Now - the acting.
I thought that the acting was brilliant in this movie. Chris Hemsworth was perfect for Thor, Natalie Portman was *as always* great, however I think that Tom Hiddleston who played "Loki" stole the show. He was fantastic.
Why haven't I mentioned Anthony Hopkins yet? Because, to be honest, anyone could have played his character. He had no scenes that actually required much acting skill and I just think that he was just there for people to go "Hey, it's Anthony Hopkins!".
So yeah, I liked about half of the movie, and didn't like the other half. One half felt epic and brilliant, the other very clumsy and out of place.
However the reason I didn't give it a 5 is because the acting was so good I put it up to a 6.