| Almighty Thor | |
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| Directed by | Christopher Olen Ray |
| Written by | Eric Forsberg |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Alexander Yellen |
| Edited by | Benjamin Lee Cooper Ron Santiano |
| Music by | Chris Ridenhour |
| Distributed by | The Asylum |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $200,000 |
Almighty Thor is a 2011 Americansuperherotelevision film directed by Christopher Olen Ray. The film, amockbuster coinciding with the release of theMarvel Studios filmThor, was produced byThe Asylum for $200,000. It premiered on theSyfy cable network on May 7, 2011 and was released onDVD on May 10, 2011 in the United States.[1] The film was met with a largely negative response from critics. Loosely inspired byNorse mythology, the film follows the young warriorThor (Cody Deal) in his battle againstLoki (Richard Grieco).
In 2022, The Asylum released a second Thor film titledThor: God of Thunder.
When the god of deceptionLoki (Richard Grieco) wipes off the city ofValhalla to steal the Hammer Of Invincibility, only the young heroThor (Cody Deal) can recover the cities from evil. When Thor's father and older brother are killed in a futile attempt to retrieve the hammer from Loki, a Valkyrie named Jarnsaxa (Patricia Velásquez) attempts to train a naïve and inexperienced warrior Thor to fight Loki. This leads them on a short quest from their training camp, to the Tree of Inventory to collect a sword and shield and then to a small city where Loki attempts to hypnotize the refusing residents into serving as his minions by bringing on a wipeout with a small army of demon beasts. When Thor is about to be defeated, he must forge his own fate to save the city and reclaim the Hammer Of Invincibility from Loki once and for all.
Almighty Thor premiered on May 7, 2011, near the time of release ofMarvel Studios'Thor,
Almighty Thor received largely negative reviews from critics. Reviewing the film forThe A.V. Club, Phil Dyess-Nugent gaveAlmighty Thor a ratingof "D−", taking issue with the film's low budget: "The film is so underpopulated that most of the awful deaths Loki inflicts go down off-camera; he points his stick or gives a command to his dogs, and then you hear somebody holler, "Argghhhh!!"" Dyess-Nugent also criticized the acting of the leads and took issue with the producer's decision to shoot the LA scenes in abandoned parking lots: "The comic high point is a fight between Thor and Loki, with the guys spinning around and waving their weapons at each other while keeping one eye peeled for cops who might demand to see their filming permit."[2] The Blueprint website review of the film stated, "This brain numbing 80 minutes of constant noise, cheap effects, background music that never once stops and ropey acting will test the patience of even the most hardened B-movie aficionado ...Almighty Thor was just one giant headache of a film."[3] In a humorous and ironic review, Stuart Heritage fromthe Guardian declared thatAlmighty Thor was better than the Marvel film on which it was based.[4]