This movie isn't bad or worse then everyone says it is. I recorded this movie to watch my swimming lesson and I have to admit the reason why I put it on record was that I thought this movie was something with Thor 2011 and Thor Dark Worlds but I guess I was wrong.Even though this was never the case I still think the movie has good acting and special effects.

OK, it's bad. It's just not THAT bad.Here's the check list:1) Wooden acting? (Tick) 2) Terrible dialogue? (Tick) 3) Weird accents? (Tick) 4) Awful CGI? (Tick) 5) Naff monsters? (Tick) 6) Bewildering decisions/actions? (Tick) 7) Non-sensical plot? (Tick) 8) Primitive special effects? (Tick)Not a lot going for it really, and yet. The acting, whilst poor is a whole lot better than many low budget films I've seen recently. The dialogue is certainly strained, but it does help to create a certain mood. The hero, Thor, whilst looking a bit round in the face, and lacking any signs of intelligence, is certainly stupidly brave, which is exactly how I imagine the dim-witted Norse god to be.Overall, it's an entertaining enough romp that doesn't require much brain power to enjoy and it does make some sense by the end.The god Thor died whilst battling Jormungand, leaving Mjolnir, his mystical hammer, behind on Earth. Thor is then reborn as a human and, together with his two brothers, sets off to seek new lands to conquer and claim as his own. They arrive on an island, only to find that others have reached the island before them. There then ensues a battle with werewolves on the island for possession of Mjolnir - Thor has returned to the site of his death. It's not stated, but the implication is that if Thor can be reunited with Mjolnir then he will regain his godhood.Given that as the setup, the film does make a sort of sense, and it's a mythical tale that involves a lot of familial revenge, and honour, and dying for a cause, so it's just like most of the films made in the last 100 years. With a decent script and actors able to act and a bigger budget so that more than 4 acres of woods can be used to represent the island, then there'd be a damn good blockbuster waiting to resurrect the myth and magic genre that has lacked a decent representative since the 1960's.As it is, the film fails on almost every count, but I'd happily watch it on a wet Sunday in January with a cup of warm cocoa.

The biggest shame about this movie is that it could have been adequate. I love mythology, and too many people don't know that we owe the Norse gods Tiu, Woden, Thor and Freya for four days of the week, so I settled in for 'Thor: Hammer of the Gods'. I was surprised the man I thought would be Thor turned out to be Baldur (with a faintly Irish accent), and 'Thor' was a puffy stoner defensive lineman who can't even deliver a line like 'Here?! . . . Now?!?' but rather as 'here. Now,' Some pretty good performances by said faintly Irish Baldur (pronounced by stoner Thor as 'Barndoor'), a gorgeous black Scouser as the evil older brother of blond Thor and redheaded Baldur, and the seer Freya, are lost against the cheesiest special effects this side of a community college movie project: I kid you not, Styrofoam-chip snow, wires they don't bother removing, and Fenrir, the wolf at the end of days, as a kinda cuddly CGI pangolin. Eye-rollingly cheesy, but with a couple of million more quid and with ANYONE except the puffy stoner from 'Home Improvement' as Thor, it could have been good. OK, adequate.

I didn't have very high expectations for this movie. I was expecting something low budget but watchable, around the standard of 'King Arthur', 'The Last Legion', 'Reign of Fire' or a Uwe boll movie (if you have seen any of those?) or a feature length episode of Xena Warrior Princess... But even with such low expectations I was surprised by how bad this film is. It's much worse than any of the above.If you have ever seen a movie made by high school students. Which stars themselves and their friends running about in the woods and play fighting... Then you will have some idea of what to expect here. This is not just a cruel exaggeration it really is that bad. In fairness you might wonder where they got the money for a boat and a snow machine, but otherwise 'school media project' is about the standard we are talking here.This movie is basically about a bunch of Vikings who sail to a distant land, which turns out to be inhabited by low budget werewolves. Don't be fooled into thinking that the movie has any relevance to the Viking god Thor or actual mythology... It doesn't. They just reused the name (presumably to add inaccuracy to the long list of flaws in this film).The film has a distinctly amateur feel even by TV movie standards. At no point did I ever believe I was watching real Vikings. I'm not even sure if I was watching real actors since most of the lines are simply read aloud rather than acted. And half-heartedly forcing out a 'ye' or a 'thou' in a modern Liverpool accent didn't add anything to believability.The set is quite literally 'the woods at the bottom of someone's garden' and most of the film takes place within 50 feet of an old shed, which we are supposed to believe is a village.It's difficult to find anything good to say about this movie. Some of the girls are nice looking I guess... that's about it *shrug* You might want to watch this just to see how bad it really is, but most of it is boring and painful rather than amusing.I normally reserve ratings of 1 and 2 for films where the sound and picture quality is so bad that the film is virtually unwatchable. This film doesn't have those problems but I just can't bring myself to give it a 3. Unless you are Todor Chapkanov's parents, you aren't going to be impressed by this.