As we move towards this rather tragic ending we experience a number of astonishing, self-indulgent nonsensical plot points scripted by people who clearly want to outdo the previous films. Ragnarok deals with the end of Asgard, the storied home of Thor (the loveable Chris Hemsworth) and his mischievous, malevolent brother Loki (good old Tom Hiddleston). Unfortunately, he does have to pay attention to the (in this case) bad girl-good guys complex and so, as usual, one may as well fall asleep in the last twenty minutes – so irrelevant is the ending. Waititi, an indie director from New Zealand whose successes have come from the most irreverent of films such as the hilarious What We Do in the Shadows(2014) – a vampire spoof, pulls off a rather astonishing feat by taking a fairly formulaic Marvel film and making it side-splittingly funny at times. Taika Waititi’s first attempt at a big studio film follows in the footsteps of Guardians of the Galaxy.
The seventeenth film in the Marvel universe and the third installation of the Thor series, Thor: Ragnarok is worth seeing even while it is not quite as good as The Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), which was so shockingly good (funny, entertaining and thoroughly original) that director James Gunn became a hero for a time among tired movie-goers – until the inevitable next installment, which was fine but not as great as the first one. There is nothing much to be said about the Marvel films these days, aside from whether it’s good and worth your time or bad and not worth your time, money and the increasingly self-interested cinema goers in Kathmandu theatres.
0 kommentar(er)
