Thor: Hammer of the Gods (TV Movie 2009)

Thor: Hammer of the Gods (TV Movie 2009). 1h 32m | K-12/9

“Itu0026#39;s easy to see how an idea like this gets commissioned . Someone contacts a producer with a pitch of u0026quot; Itu0026#39;s all about vikings fighting werewolves u0026quot; or in other words DOG SOLDIERS with swords . So we all agree that thereu0026#39;s a good premise ? Good . So why does everyone hate it ? u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEasy to explain – the budget for one thing , well maybe the everything is summed up by the budget which means no decent director can hire worthwhile actors , make up crew etc . , or more realistically the producer couldnu0026#39;t hire a decent director in the first place . Not to be too cruel though and that is the director tries to disguise his small budget by shooting action scenes in the dark or holding on an extreme close up of a viking as he fights off an unseen pack of werewolves . Good try Mr Director but itu0026#39;s painfully obvious thereu0026#39;s only enough money for two werewolf costumes u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe other major irritant is that the cast are to be blunt extremely amateurish . All of them seem to come from another country with differing accents . We even have a multi-ethnic company of vikings with a contrived and needless explanation for it . Looking on the bright side Paterson Joseph doesnu0026#39;t appear and the actor in question Daz Crawford looks like heu0026#39;s playing an anorexic Mike Tyson with a Lancashire accent u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI will be charitable and say the cast are not helped one bit by the dialogue . It really is heavy handed , stilted and bombastic . Thereu0026#39;s no camp value involved and you get the feeling it was written for the Royal Shakespeare Company . Unfortunately Will Shakespeare hadnu0026#39;t thought of adding monsters to any of his more turgid dramas and watching this film you may understand why”