Though initially promising, this instalment soon devolves into tedious and intangible CGI spectacle and tries it's best to focus on anything other than the eponymous hero.

Rating: 5/10 (29 October 2017)

Initially its prospects seem more promising than its predecessor, but it soon becomes apparent that 'Thor: The Dark World' is so generic and devoid of character development - not to mention the fact that what little is present is almost immediately upended by the other films in which the eponymous hero appears - that even the impressively rendered CGI spectacle becomes nothing more than a passive viewing experience because we have no connection to any of the characters caught up in the over-the-top proceedings; it also doesn't help that Thor himself is barely even in the flick, with large portions of the picture (sometimes even ten minutes) dedicated solely to the downright annoying side- characters or the always up-staging yet at this point played-out Loki, and the villain is so bland, so unthreatening and just so sincerely uninteresting that the film quickly slips into its own unique rhythm of tedious action and lullaby-like exposition. 5/10