As 'Thor: The Dark World' Fails To Overwhelm Critics, Are Marvel Losing Their Touch?
The film has been warmly received, but the solo outing from the Avenger comes nowhere near the quality of some earlier Marvel releases. Is this a sign of declining quality?
Thor 2: The Dark World has been entertaining audiences to a variable degree since it was released this week in the US, and even earlier in some overseas markets. The film already looks on course to be a big hitter at the box office and earn Disney and Marvel even more in their already record breaking annual revenue. Still, the film has not been universally acclaimed and is a shadow of the quality on offer in some of Marvel's most beloved outings. With no end in sight to the ongoing force of the superhero movie realm, does Thor's limited quality indicate a continuing drop in quality?
Chris Hemsworth stands tall as Thor - but does he stand tall enough?
The film has had a considerable amount of negative press to go with the good reviews and positive box office gross and forced one critic to describe it as "a superhero movie that feels like it might have been made by anyone and no one at the same time, simply space-filler before the next big team-up movie."
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