“Thor: The Dark World” was released on November 8, 2013 in the US, directed by Alan Taylor. The main actors present in the film are Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Christopher Eccleston. It’s a film that was met with much anticipation, but ultimately did not live up to it.

        “Thor”, the film that began the story of the god of thunder tasked with defending Earth after being casted away, was met with mostly positive reviews and compliments on its action sequences and character development. It introduced a new realm to explore in the series of Marvel superhero films. While the second installment does explore this realm to a greater extent, most of the film’s events occur on Earth, where most of the other Marvel superhero films take place. This would already waste some potential for exploration in the film, and many possibilities of story arcs that could have been introduced.

        Additionally, the main antagonist of this film had no depth to their character. The antagonist has only one goal: to destroy the Earth (which sounds generic already), and the sole reason for this is to obtain a lost item of his. The villain is never shown any emotional depth, and barely any backstory that can provide the audience with more clarity of his character. He’s just an angry elf with dark armor. The first film dealt with this issue by making the antagonist related to the protagonist, since they were brothers. We were also provided with plenty of background information on his character and his relationship with the protagonist.     Furthermore, the action sequences were dull, consisting of mostly a few punches and cgi. The jokes made in the film also didn’t land, as the audience in my theater remained quiet throughout the film.

        Speaking of the film’s weak audience perception, the plot was also very incohesive, as multiple plot points surrounding side characters that were introduced in the first film are ignored, and the characters seem to jump from one location to the other way too quickly, with no time to develop any of these characters. Although it may be considered minor, the coloring in the movie felt very bland, as black and gray were the most prominent colors used in the film. 

       Overall, the film was a letdown considering the anticipation that surrounded it, and what seemed to be an attempt at creating a fun, summer superhero blockbuster film turned out to be a bland, poorly integrated continuation of the story following the Norse god Thor, with multiple storylines from the original film being ignored.