Thor : The Dark World



Name: Thor: The Dark World

Genre: Action/Adventure/Fantasy

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Alan Taylor (Director)

Synopsis: Long time ago, Bor father of Odin clashed with Dark Elf Malekith, who wants to destroy a weapon called Aether. When Bor conquered Malekith’s forces which include warriors called Kursed on their own homeland called Svartalfhiem, he safeguards the Aether within a stone column. Without the knowledge of him, Malekeith and a handful of dark elves escaped into suspended animation. Even today, Asgard and Loki are imprisoned for their war crimes on Earth. Thor with other warriors Fandral, Volstagg and Sif fights marauders on Vanaheim, home of one of their comrade Hogun. It is the final battle in a war to bring peace in Nine Realms with the constructive of the Bifrost, the “Rainbow Bridge” between the Realms which was earlier destroyed. Dr. Jane Foster an intern Astrophysicist was taken to an abandoned factory by Darcy Lewis where objects were started disappearing in the thin air, disobeying the law of Physics. Jane was somehow teleported to another world where she is infected by Aether. Asgardinas came to know that the Convergence, a rare alignment of Nine Realms is important as the event approaches where portals linking to worlds appear at random. Thor was alerted about Jane’s disappearance by Heimdall. Thor goes for her search, found her and takes her to Asgard. Asgard healers       said that they don’t know how to treat her. Odin, recognizes the Aether and warns Jane that this infection will kill her Aether’s return will bring a catastrophic prophecy. Malekeith awakened from Aether’s presence. He turned Algrim into a Kursed warrior and attacked Asgard. During the fight both Malekeith and Algrim search for Jane but couldn’t find her so they escaped but during that they killed Thor’s mother Frigga. Thor teams up the Loki who knows the secret portal to Malekeith’s world where they can lure Malekieth with the use of Jane as bait. With a little assistance from Volstagg, Sif and Fandral, Thor and Loki takes a dark Elves ship and went to Svartalfheim with Jane. When they were on Svartalfheim Loki lures malekeith to take out Aether from Jane Thor attempts to destroy Aether but failed leading Malekeith to be empowered with Aether. Malekeith leaves but Loki was fatally wounded when in protecting Thor from Algrim. Loki died. Thor and Jane discovered another portal in a nearby cave and reunite with Dr. Erik Selvig, Darcy in London. There they came to know that Malekeith wants to destroy universe using Aether and he will use this in Greenwich which is the centre of the Convergence. Thor fights with Malekeith but a portal separates them. Thor comes to his mortal comrades and seeks to use scientific equipment to transport Malekeith back to Svartalfheim where he is killed before destroying the universe. Thor returns to Asgard. He declines Odin offer to take the throne and tell the Odin was Loki was sacrificed himself. As Thor leaves, Odin transform into a grinning Loki. When Credit scenes were on, Volstagg and Sif visit the collector and entrusted him with Aether. He said that as Tesseract already in Asgard, having 2 such stones together can be dangerous. As they left, collector said “One down, five to go.” During the teaser in the last, a frost monster accidently transported to earth was uncontrollable and running wild, as Thor and Kane was reunited in London.

Review: The movie is full of action. A charismatic performance of Hemsworth and Hiddleston. Natalie Portman performance was also up to the expectations. The movie has plenty of humor in it and at sometime you may feel that's a little too much. Visual effects of the movie are above average. One of the drawbacks is that the story of movie is same like old ones, villain tries to destroy whole world, and hero saves the universe with a little sacrifice. Overall, a good movie to watch which is full of action and with some amount of humor in it.


Stars given: 2.5 out of 5. 

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