Thor the thunder god?

Rating: 6/10 (28 July 2012)

Thor was overall a good movie with fantastic special effects and really good costume design. All the characters looked great. Thor looked like a strong confident hero while the humans just looked human. Thor's red cape and his shinny armor looked real the city of Asgod looked amazing. The special effects blew me away. The frost trolls looked terrifying and the presentation was almost perfect. Thor's friend's costumes looked great and the giant robot that blew things up was cool too. The movie focused more on the story and less on action scenes and blowing stuff up. That was my favorite part.
Thor is one of my favorite superheroes and I loved how the director showed his flaws. He is strong but foolish and the development of the character was done really well. He isn't perfect even though he is a hero. He struggles with being human and he feels guilt that his brother lays upon him. The character of Thor was portrayed really well. A strong hotheaded hero with little wisdom but grows as he goes along. He evolves into a stronger wiser hero by the end.
Thor's relationship with Jane was cute. A little predictable but still necessary but their story made sense and it wasn't exaggerated. I thought the kiss before the final battle was pushing it a little bit. The kiss on the hand and the parting line would have been perfect. Jane as a character was really good for the story. She is smart and she believes in Thor's story and that is important to push the story along. Her superior, the male, his character was also necessary. He obviously shows importance because of the little teaser at the end of the credits. I hated that the movie had to tell us that Thor would return in The Avengers. That was obvious and completely unnecessary. Her other friend, I don't even know her name was completely unnecessary. She played no importance and the movie could have survived without her. Her cheesy one-liners were just silly.
One big problem with the movie was the predictability of Loki. It was obvious that he would be the jealous brother, come up with a plan to banish Thor and take the throne for himself. That's been done many times and made the movie less enjoyable. He was the villain but then did a U-turn and became a hero when he saved his father. Then he turned again and became the villain again and fought Thor and wanted to destroy the race of frost trolls. Then he turns lets go and falls into darkness and looks like a hero and he shows up on Earth after the credits, at least it looked like him. His character is unknown and his motives are not clear. That bugged me and made me a little angry.
Loki as a character was confusing and his motives were not clear. All he had to do was say one thing about Jane and Thor attacked him. That was the wrong thing to say for Thor to attack. Thor met her just a short time prior and I feel something about his home or destiny would have been a better thing to tick him off.
The movie is called Thor but for 80% of the movie he wasn't Thor, he was a human. That was a problem, Thor could have easily still been Thor on Earth, had a few more action scenes, still focus on the relationship, and still be a great movie. I feel making Thor human made the movie have less potential. Overall I give Thor 7 out of 10 for its presentation, action, and story.