Film
Thor: Ragnarok
- Director
- Taika Waititi
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 130 mins
If you’re counting, this month’s superhero film is the seventeenth instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The story unfolds four years after the events of Thor: the Dark World and two years after Avengers: Age of Ultron. Slumming classical scholars will not need reminding that Ragnarok in Old Norse mythology is the ultimate smackdown between gods and giants of frost of fire, leading to the destruction of the world as it’s submerged in water – only for the planet to pop up again and start over.
The Marvel version has a hammerless Thor (Chris Hemsworth) obliged to slug it out with Mr. The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) before he can toddle home to Asgard to prevent Cate Blanchett‘s rotter Hela from triggering Ragnarok. Making his Marvel – and, indeed, Hollywood – debut in the director’s chair is New Zealand’s Taika Waititi, who’s best known for Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
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