“Thor” Movie Review
Thor is a devoted warrior who is ironically arrogant and impulsive. His father, the King of the realm of Asgard banishes him to contemporary New Mexico as punishment for starting a war with the neighboring realm ruled by an evil king. Thor must develop patience, thoughtfulness, and humility to earn back his powers and serve as a warrior again.
The story line for this movie is excellent. It has meaningful underlying messages. It is dramatic. It connects to a contemporary American audience. It draws on ancient mythology. This is a predictable movie, but most movies are predictable and the only flaw in the storyline is its predictability.
But this storyline is part of a script that does not tell its story with any adeptness. The movie includes distracting subplots that are predictable and little or no transitioning between scenes. The dialogue is unoriginal. The characters are uninteresting and simple. The script for this movie is subpar overall despite its excellent plot.
The quality of this movie is saved by its artistic direction. Costume designer Michael Kutsche did a fabulous job of designing the costumes for the characters in this film. His designs are inventive and richly detailed. The set design for Thor is almost as impressive as the costume design. The special effects are flashy and entertaining. The visual elements of the movie Thor distract from the quality of the script and are impressive enough to make the film a delight to watch.
This movie would be better without the romantic subplot. No one cares about love between characters that are uninteresting and presented by a script with poor character development. People want to see romance happen for lovable characters. The romantic subplot itself is poorly developed. If the writer cut the romantic subplot, then the writer could have given more time to developing how the larger plot is told in the script for the viewer.
Thor is a character with charisma, but he is too lacking in depth to seem like an actual person. Instead, Thor appears to be more like a comic book hero. Thor is not a lovable character because he is too simple. He lacks uniqueness and personality. Thor’s human love interest is also too simple to be lovable.
