Improving the characters, not putting that much effort on the plot

Rating: 8/10 (12 November 2013)

It becomes a regular issue with recent films, especially when we're speaking about films that highly depend on CG and super fast action scenes. It's not a necessity but it's been proved repeatedly that building proper characters is getting a lot more attention than constructing real good plot. I can understand the reasoning behind it, when the characters are appealing, the actors find it easier to relate and do their work better. And almost everybody here excels though Tom Hiddleton as Loki deserves special notice. But the story could definitely be built better. And I'm not speaking about the plausibility of the basic premise, as I said more than once the entire idea of a living super hero calls for some suspension of judgment, but if this super hero operates inside our own world, some other laws of logic must apply, and many of those are ignored here. Which I find to be regrettable since everything else is of a very high quality. And yes once again - no real need for 3D, in fact even less so than in the original Thor movie. Bottom line - good fun that could've been much better.