Mostly excellent, if you know why you're watching it

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2014)

Having watched it a second time and checking out the reviews here, I'm amazed how many people didn't like it. I thought it the strongest in the Marvel Universe series after Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Yes, better than Iron Man (all of them).
Casting is solid, with a great bad guy, the storyline is appropriately over the top, without too much attention to character development, and the whole feel of the move is that of an epic myth, in a comic context. Those are traits of many comics, and not necessarily bad ones.
Maybe it's my interest in Nordic mythology which gives Thor the edge, or the astonishingly great, epic scenes in the movie. Or Loki, who is mostly great, as before.
Highly recommended - don't pay too much attention to reviews!