MOVIE REVIEW: THOR RAGNAROK
A quick note before I begin. This review may contain mild spoilers, but nothing that wasn't hinted in the trailers for the film. However, if you want to avoid having some surprises revealed, you may just want to avoid any reviews in the first place. ;) Thor has never been the easiest character to integrate in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a world dominated by the science and reason of Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, we now had to jump into a land of trolls, giants and Gods. The contrast seemed hard to digest, but the makers of the first THOR movie had the brilliant idea to adhere to Arthur C. Clarke's third law : ''Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic''. Hence, Asgard is not as much a realm of Gods, but a race of aliens that have been mistaken for Gods in their early Earthly visits. Something also pretty much right out of the pages of Erich Von Daniken's CHARIOTS OF THE GODS . A brilliant move. Kenneth Branagh was ...