2011 · adventure · fantasy · action
Thor
Directed by Kenneth Branagh1h 55m2011
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
Our read: Thor (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive adventure · fantasy · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme adventure / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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