After that, the film splits into a couple of parallel narratives.įully half the film is a court intrigue/war picture, charting the takeover of Asgard by Thor’s long lost sister Hela ( Cate Blanchett), a black-clad force of nature who seems to turn into a demonic stag-beast when she fights: her head sprouts elegant antlers that might have been sketched in the air with a brush dipped in India ink. The demon tells him that his father Odin ( Anthony Hopkins) is no longer on Asgard and that their homeworld will soon be destroyed in Ragnarok, a prophesied apocalypse. Written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost and directed by Taika Waititi (“ Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” “ What We Do in the Shadows”), this is almost but not quite a stand-alone picture, tethered to previous “Avengers” entries only by Thor’s opening search for the Infinity Stones, which has led him to be imprisoned by the fire demon Sutur. ![]() ![]() Hemsworth’s charisma holds “Thor: Ragnarok” together whenever it threatens to spin apart, which unfortunately is often.
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