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Thor: God of Thunder is the newest, and quite interestign ‘mockbuster’ from The Asylum, and happens to be their second take on this hammer-tossing Norseman’s story. There’s no connection though, with their 2011 film titled Almighty Thor.
This time out Loki has escaped from Asgard (Daniel O’Reilly; The Girl on the Mountain, D-Railed). And why should he? His guards Ivar (Vadim Brunell) and Halstein (Eva Ceja; 4 Horsemen: Apocalypse, Aquarium of the Dead) are ravenous, overweight slobs who are constantly late with food. He proceeds to slay them and starts his journey in ruling over Earth to Odin (Vernon Wells; Commando, Tales from the Other Side) and sets out to awaken the giant wolf god Fenrir and destroy Yggdrasil – The Tree of the Nine Realms. You know, the normal stuff evil deities do.
Odin can only wait for so long before being Thor (Myrom Kingery; The Time Capsule, Devil’s Triangle) to Thor. He explains that the only way to defeat Loki is by locating You know The Amulet of Varga. Unfortunately, all they have is a known location of one halves which is held by Loki. Like every other amulet, it also comes with a captivating story. To find the amulet, someone will have to accompany Odin and that is where Dr. Grace Choi (Vaune Suitt) and Dr. Adrian Quinn (Neli Sabour) come in. Funny enough, these two archeologists happen to be digging in Fenrir’s prison.
Steve Doucette’s writing and Noah Luke’s directing are not what I would consider, ‘ground breaking’. However, they do manage to keep the audience entertained. The same can be said for ‘Asylum’ movies. At least they do not throttle their viewers with endless monologs. Thank goodness they put in a sword fight and a wolf so large it could 3D eye ball you.
It is easy to see why Thor: God of Thunder was allocated more funds compared to the other films of The Asylum. But even then, the level of care put into this production is lacking. One moment there is an overpass crumbling due to a quake while in the next the scene shifts to a calm surrounding where not a single shelf is in disarray. The early stages of the flick does have engaging action but for it’s very first clash between Thor and Loki…it feels like I am watching a Black Metal music video.
Like in Jungle Run, Luke is able to incorporate enough low-budget quality into Thor: God of Thunder, which makes the film captivating in a different way. The first half of the movie is indeed pleasant. Some glaring mistakes, for instance, Thor appears to paddle a Viking boat using a kayak paddle while sitting in a kayak, provide laughter instead of ruining the scene.
Sadly, the last act does drown itself in the cringe-worthy motivational speech on not giving up, and the final combat suffers a great deal because of the horrible CGI for Fenrir. Not only does he resemble a character that escaped from a child’s cartoon, but, at times, he looks more like a bear than a wolf. And that is rather shocking because the Asgard scenes, as well as the Los Angeles earthquake, and the tsunami are actually more than decent. Although, the green screen work could do with a lot of improvement.
Compared to other works by The Asylum, the overall production is rough, but with the bar so low set, Thor: God of Thunder is at least not awful. This is without a doubt one of the better ones recently and their fans would be pleased. More passive viewers will appreciate the production because of how over the top and unrestrained the majority of the movie is. And soap-opera lovers can relish watching Tyler off of General Hospital as well as Days of Our Lives play Dr. Choi who is Quinn’s boss.
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