Thor: Well Worth the Disturbance

Hello everyone!

It's review time and today, I'm tapping out a review for Thor with Chris Hemsworth that I have literally just finished watching on Channel 4 in the UK.

I have been wanting to see this since it first came out and, admittedly, though I have no interest in The Avengers, it's a welcome distraction what with me taking the decision to stay away from the after hours club at my church for the forseeable future.

This is a review so I won't get into why I've decided to do that here...

Another Masterclass from Marvel

Before I start I want to reiterate that, having seen The Avengers and been so completely underwhelmed by its messy script, this was a fresh chance for me to see the character of Thor in action to see if he could hold up a movie all by himself.

And could he?

Definitely!

For me, Chris Hemsworth was a well chosen actor to play the role of Thor as at the time, I don't believe he'd done much in the way of well known roles if memory serves me correct.

It shows that Hollywood is taking the unknown scene seriously when they start giving A-lister roles to men & women that are just starting out as though it's a recognition thing. When I utilise the term "a recognition thing", I'm pointing out that it is about time that Hollywood got on that bandwagon and, though this is a few years old, it was deservedly handed to a relative unknown because now look at him... another Thor film, The Dark World, another Avengers film, with another one in the pipelines.

Here's hoping Marvel Studios and Hollywood continue to use an actor like Hemsworth well in future Thor films.

The plot was easy enough to follow and I must admit at this point I want to pay special respect to Tom Hiddleston, who would go on a few years later, to play an excellent role in BBC adaptation The Night Manager. This time, he played Thor's brother, Loki, along with someone who I almost repeatedly mistook for Donald Sutherland's character, President Snow, from the Hunger Games films right the way down to his hair & facial hair combo!

I hope someone else watches that came to the same conclusion that I did! :-D

Well played on casting Anthony Hopkins for this role though, Marvel!

Final Verdict

The rating that I'm giving this one stands in its own right and it's hardly likely that it can lose stars upon future viewings.

It deserves maximum rating simply because of Hemsworth's performance alone, in my mind, but it was definitely helped by a strong script and an understandable plot that was easy enough to follow.

Therefore I'm awarding it the following rating: -

Whether or not I endeavour to add in a review this week for Dredd also, is another matter entirely, but I must admit that I like what I'm seeing so far.

Does it compare with the original? It so far stands out in its own right as a well-executed film even though the 3D elements are blatantly overdone in this opening twenty-odd minutes. But, whatever...

As far as Marvel films go, was this the best? Not quite, for me The Amazing Spiderman takes that title, simply because I thought Andrew Garfield's performance knocked Spidey into a new dimension that, sadly, we will no longer get to explore now that the role has been handed down to someone younger.

All in all, Thor is definitely worth a watch if you've got a couple of hours to kill and it will happily keep you distracted with its well done special effects and, again, easy to follow plot.

Peace out!