The Marvel Comics movie Thor is more than just a commercial for The Avengers, it’s also a movie where characters behave in ways
that are necessitated by the plot and some adherence to the comic lore. It’s a
movie that spent so much time and energy creating two different planets (one
inspired by Flash Gordon and the
other by The Lord of the Rings) that
they forget to apply some production design to a New Mexico town that abruptly
ends at the end of Main St. That Kenneth Branagh stooped to direct this mess
does not speak highly of Kenneth Branagh. Has he become the latest in a series
of unique directorial talents to become a slave to a large paycheck? How does a
man whose screen representations of Shakespeare are rivaled only by Olivier
come to work with such hackneyed writing and wooden acting?
