It was OK

Rating: 3/10 (28 January 2012)

Thor was alright. If you want a mindless action movie with a comic hero believably coming to life, you will enjoy it.
It started off a bit ridiculous but I gave the movie leeway and suspended disbelief a little further, this is a comic after all - completely forget the Norse Mythology aspect. Once I did that, it had a certain charm. Then Thor is sent to Earth and it started to veer off the tracks and kept straying further and further. Thor's brash arrogance could've played out really adorably on Earth but that part was really short lived. Then Thor has a turn around in a matter of minutes - this transformation could've had its own laughs as we struggle to learn with him. Thor was always good but arrogant to completely noble in 60 seconds? Then the love angle, I am not sure what Thor would see in the Natalie Portman character or vice versa. There is little given here to make their 24 hour romance believable and trust me, I wasn't asking for a lot. Thor's friends show up on Earth for about a minute to then go back. The entire movie was just skimming along. There were also some unbelievable plot twists like the FBI just letting Thor go. Lastly, the cheese factor - again, extra disbelief suspended and so cheese and cliché go with the territory but about half way through, the cheese started spilling over and I couldn't take it any more.
It actually exceeded my expectations as I thought it would be truly dreadful but it wasn't. The plot just needed more flesh. The opening sequence is so long and drawn out that it really could've been trimmed down as it was only the set-up and then the plot could have gotten a little more loving.