– ★★★☆ ☆
‘In the tone of disappointment, it’s like nothing happened.’
Thor: The Dark World is a sequel of the Thor movie in 2011, also a follow-up to the cross-over film: The Avengers, and an eight installment in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. Starring Chris Hemsworth (Rush) as Thor, Natalie Portman (Black Swan) as Thor’s love interest, Jane Foster, Tom Hiddleston (Midnight in Paris) as the vengeful Loki, Anthony Hopkins as Thor’s father, Odin, Christopher Ecclesston as Malekith and Rene Russo as Thor and Loki’s mother Frigga. The film was set to release November 8, 2013, yet ahead in the Philippines which was on October 30th.
I truly am a GAGA fan of the cinematic universe. How I begged for something like this; films that are interconnected with each other and one day will cross-over in one epic movie and proceed. Marvel Cinematic Universe is the answer to this plea.
They have created oneness and interrelated concepts in comic characters like Iron Man (which truly was the best of all franchises), Captain America, Hulk and Thor. They also even managed to expand the world in television and created a spin-off story about the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which disappoints fans a bit, but not me.
I remembered not liking the first Thor movie due to its long precedence of build-up and little non-satisfying action scenes. And it doesn’t differ in Thor: The Dark World.
The movie started off with an explanation of Malekith’s treason to the Universe with Anthony Hopkins lame voice over. I wasn’t INTO IT because there was no intensity in the actor’s voice; he was just like a bored story teller and it should’ve been created with impact since it’s the opener of the movie, and it’s just infuriating hearing Hopkins lazy on that build-up.
And the build-up continues on and on in about an hour out of 112 minutes of the film which bored me to death, not even Frigga’s death created much impact.
There was a part where Malekith and his gang had already infiltrated Asgard which I also didn’t feel the threat due to the fact that there was no build-up on how Malekith would intensify his revenge.
The interesting part only exaggerated when (SPOILER, MAJOR SPOILER) Loki died and he battle between Thor and Malekith who acquired the Aether (A dark force in liquid form to extinguish the 9 realms and create darkness) from Jane who had possessed the said element.
Yet still the action scenes feel heavy.
Although, there were truly funny moments in the film that delights me, since everyone should know that any Marvel Cinematic Universe film would not be possible with no touch of comedy in it. I remember laughing my ass out loud when Loki transformed himself to Captain America that made Chris Evans’ uncredited cameo. The comedy lasted throughout the climatic ending, which wasn’t even present in the build-up part that lames it all up; not even the amazingly funny Kat Dennings’ made an strong laughable moments in the build-up parts (but not in the climax where she and her intern was really funny).
So everything sums up to the climax part and the rest of the film was a blah.
Thor gave me the impression that there are ups and downs in any cinematic world, and Thor was a down. The action scenes were ‘bad’ heavy; the build-up was too much that gives a bore; the climatic part wasn’t that satisfying; there were no ‘HELL YEAH, THAT’S THOR’ moment; and there was really nothing to say about the film but disappointment and nothing happened.
Thor: The Dark World is directed by Alan Taylor.
CRITIQUE:
Story – 2
Cinematography – 2
Musical Score – 3
Acting – 4
Direction – 3
Visual Effects (YES) – 5
OVERALL – 3.1
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