Mico E. Aquino                                                                                          

Nov. 3, 2013

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Film Critics Circle

Thor: The Dark World

Thor 2 is by far the best movie Marvel's come up with for this year. Sure, there was Iron Man 3 (which was a disappointment, by the way) and The Wolverine, but they're nothing compared to The Dark World.

The movie starts with an introduction of the Dark Elves (of the realm Svartalfheim, but they're actually called 'dwarves' in Norse mythology), and their campaign to destroy all realms "to return them into darkness" during "the convergence, a once-every-5,000 years event where all the realms were lined up to each other and all forms of barriers between them just disappear", using a weapon known only as "The Aether".

Of course, the Dark Elves fail, only because of Odin's father, Borr. Instead of destroying the Aether, Borr decides to hide it in the void that forms underneath all the realms during the convergence, and this would play a major role in the plot.

Of course, the fights between the Dark Elves and the Asgardians aren't the only good thing in the movie (like when Heimdall destroyed that fighter thing with daggers). There are the unexpected plot twists, which I will no longer explain in detail so as to prevent any readers who are yet to watch the movie to be 'spoiled'.

A downside to the movie, though, is that it contains a lot of terms that probably are being used the wrong way in the movie, and could just result to a viewer being confused half the time.

The visual presentation of the movie is fantastic though. It looks like a complete overhaul of the tech they used for Iron Man 3 into something more advanced. The lighting used in the movie also made good effects that put emphasis into certain elements of the film.

Unlike Phase 1 Marvel movies (pre-Avengers movies), this movie seemed to inherit Phase Two's legacy of a great sense of humor (like when Stan Lee was seen in the film living in what seemed to be a mental hospital) and as such causes great impact onto the crowd.

All in all, Thor: The Dark World has been a great Marvel movie, surpassing blockbusters Iron Man 3 and Pacific Rim, and making the Thor movie adaptations not so bad at all, after the crappy movie you'd call Thor.

Score: 9/10