Movie of the Week: Thor Ragnarok

[jacey]

Marvel has done it again - delivered a mixture of fast action, high stakes, stunning visuals, charismatic actors and belly laughs in all the right places. Chris Hemsworth has great comic timing and Tom Hiddleston is one of the best loved villains - though, in this case, he's not the big bad. Cate Blanchette is Hela, a forgotten half sibling and goddess of death, who decides that Asgard is hers as soon as Odin dies.

Meanwhile Thor crash-lands on a garbage planet, gets a haircut (pity) and is forced into the arena where he discovers that his opponent is 'a friend from work', yes, the big green guy himself. mayhem ensues.

Eventually Thor, Hulk and Loki go up against Hela and Fenris the wolf in a no-holds-barred finale.

Well worth seeing. One of this year's better movies.