Thor was always going to be complicated. Bringing Marvel comics to life has been an exercise in de-mystifying the myths and bringing out the people behind, mostly. What do you do when your next character is literally a God? Add to it the added task of tying it in with the tone and the world-building of the larger universe with the upcoming Avengers film in mind, and Kenneth Branagh had a tough task on his hand.
To his credit Branagh never shies away from the realism or the mythology. He embraces the larger-than-life mythology, and builds a fascinating Asgard of high technology a....