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Almighty Thor

USA 2011
produced by
David Michael Latt, David Rimawi (executive) for The Asylum/SyFy
directed by Christopher Ray
starring Cody Deal, Richard Grieco, Patricia Velasquez, Kevin Nash, Jess Allen, Nicole Fox, Leslea Fisher, Lauren Halperin, Charlie Glackin, Chris Ivan Cevic, Roddy Schaef, Gerald Webb, Kristen Kerr, Jason Medbury
written by Erik Estenburg, music by Chris Ridenhour, visual effects by Joseph J.Lawson

Thor

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Somewhere in the land of legends, demon demi god Loki (Richard Grieco) searches for Odin's (Kevin Nash) mighty hammer, aided by a few giant monsters. He even destroys the fortress of Valhalla before finally facing and killing Odin - but before Odin dies, he throws the hammer straight into another dimension to keep it out of the hands of Loki. Odin's son Thor (Cody Deal) wants to avenge his father immediately, but is held back by valkyrie Jarnsaxa (Patricia Velasquez), his father's closest friend who knows young Thor might not lack the courage to take on Loki - but he lacks in pretty much every other department. So by means of some magic, she gets Thor to modern day Los Angeles and re-unites him with his father's hammer. But Loki is hell-bent on getting the hammer, so he follows them and uses all his trickery to get to it. Mostly, it's Jarnsaxa who keeps Thor falling for Loki's tricks, but Thor is a young hothead who repeatedly ignores her sound and well-meant - and for that he ultimately loses the hammer to Loki and is sent to hell, while Loki's giant monsters destroy LA. It's only in hell that Thor finds his inner strength, builds himself a new hammer out of his courage and noble thoughts, then he returns to earth to fight and defeat Loki.

 

One of this films by The Asylum that was torn apart even before its release - and not for any objective reasons. Basically, Almighty Thor was accused for being a cheap rip-off of Kenneth Branagh's big budget Marvel-adaptation Thor - and produced by The Asylum for SyFy, directed by Fred Olen Ray's son - enough apparently to be reviled by comicbook fans ... which is quite unjustified since ... well, Marvel's Thor is in itself a rather uninspired rip-off of Norse legends, and certainly one of the lesser creations of the terribly uneven team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and this film at hand is certainly no more or less faithful to the legend than the Marvel-version, but differs from it quite considerably, and in a positive way: Here, the makers dare to present Thor not as an infallible hero but as ... well, maybe the most courageous being on earth, but also a man (or rather demi-god) who lacks the skills, the smarts, the determination or even the strength to defeat his enemy, also someone who constantly ignores good advice, and never to his own advantage. What's more, his advisor is a sexy woman who gets him out of one tough fit after the other - and that alone is almost enough to float the boat ... but Richard Grieco is certainly a great villain to keep things fun.

That said of course, the film isn't without its letdowns (mostly budget-related), the costumes and sets in the period parts of the movie fail to really click, the monsters are too clearly CGI-creatures, and much of the destruction they cause doesn't come to life on both a visual and emotional level. At least though the finale has some nice trippy portions to it, and the thing as a whole is pretty atmospheric.

In all, it's not a masterpiece, and nobody expected this film to be ... but for what it is it's quite alright, and if you can look beyond its shortcomings it's more pure fun than Thor even ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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