![]() Just not enough time to do her magic … Cate Blanchett as Hela in Thor: Ragnarok Photograph: Allstar/Marvel Studiosīlanchett gives everything as Hela, and there have surely been few more visually arresting villains in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Cate Blanchett and Marvel’s trend for forgettable villains So the loss of a little weighty pathos can perhaps be forgiven. Then again, there would have been no place in Branagh’s effort for Waititi’s motion-capture aided work on the character Korg, who is transformed from a fairly vapid and forgettable alien in the comics into one of the movie’s out-and-out highlights, the contrast between his squeaky, amiable Kiwi tones and cliff-face-like countenance a constant source of amusement. Nor is there anything to match the musclebound deity’s journey back towards humility and, with it, true heroism, in that film. For all that Hela, Blanchett’s statuesque death goddess, is capable of smashing our hero’s famous hammer and rampaging through Asgard itself, before finally tearing out the thunder god’s eye, there is no moment here so powerful as the one in the first movie – in which a stubborn and headstrong Thor is cast out by his father Odin. Our own Steve Rose is only mildly impressed, praising Waititi for infusing proceedings with “generously self-deprecating Kiwi wit” but pointing out that “there are a great many corners cut, plot holes papered over, and laws of physics bent out of recognition in this movie”.įor me, Ragnarok succeeds over and over again as a barmy space romp, but Waititi seems to have lost some of Branagh’s skill in investing these larger-than-life characters with surprising humanity. ![]() The film’s 99% “fresh” rating suggests Ragnarok is not just the greatest Marvel movie of all time, but the greatest superhero flick ever made, ahead of The Incredibles (97%), The Dark Knight (94%) and Iron Man (94%). According to the critics, this latest Thor is mighty indeed. ![]()
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