A 2 hour set up for Ragnarok, which is a 2 hour set up for Infinity Wars which is...

Rating: 6/10 (5 September 2016)

Gosh, how many films to set us up for the future Marvel films? And Marvel hold our attention and live up to the expectation?
The films enjoyable. And as a set up it works, I'm certainly excited to see what the future films have in store. But in this elaborate set up, we've completely lost the plot. You will ultimately watch this film and go "Wait, what happened again?" But it's better that way, because to re watch and this time focus on the actual plot, rather than the side story set up, is to be sorely disappointed.
**SPOILERS** So the plot goes that some dark elves used to once rule the realms, and had it snatched off them in the final moment. They're leader kills the majority of his civilians to try again 5000 years later. He doesn't mind waiting. All he needs is an event called the convergence and a magical all powerful ether. It's super powerful. The convergence is coming and Jane Foster stumbles on the ether, waking the dark elves so they can kick arse in Asgard, in scenes that very much look like Star Wars. Conveniently, it seems that, despite kicking butt earlier in the film, once they get the Ether, they actually suck. Like, really suck. And the world is saved by 4 humans, 1 of which is mad the other 2 complete idiots, running around with sticks and Thor - a mind-numbing boring superhero. Which is a relief I guess, for Earth anyway. But doesn't exactly make any sense.
So watch and enjoy Loki (Tom Hiddleson) completely steal the limelight to distract you from what really would be a bad film otherwise.