I may as well call SPOILERS ahead of time.

Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
Loki is not a fighter. He never has been. He works through trickery, being, you know, a trickster god and all.
Right, let me break this down for you:
  • Tricksters best work when employed on the unsuspecting. Pretty sure he got outed in his last film.
  • He was the villain in Thor already. I cannot emphasize that sentence enough. It translates into: boring.
  • Action movie. smurf tricksters; Loki plays against an ensemble of the universe's strongest linebackers. All they do is charge and pound at things, namely him. Sure, parse it how you want, but Loki is not physical confrontation material.
  • Is there anything else you want me to laugh about when you mention "trickster"? I saw all of one scene where this was well-played (but obvious), where Hulk charges into the dead-drop cell. He cannot outplay Black Widow and in none of his fights did he really do something that struck our heroes sideways and out of left field.


That said, I loved the actor's portrayal was strong, he had some fun lines, and I think there was a lot of depth in the character, BUT ultimately Loki was the wrong guy for what the screenwriters wanted.

Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
And the final battle being "oh look aliens"? What does that even mean?
Right, let me break this down for you:
  • Through the film, we see the villains as Loki and his crew of brainwashed SHIELD Agents. At the end, there are suddenly a horde of aliens for bad guys.


That is it. Had it not been obvious, I would have explained.

Yeah, yeah, I get that Loki was trying to bring them in all throughout the film and they are the real enemy, but what do we know about them? Nothing. They want to rule Earth, I... guess? By destroying buildings and killing civilians? We all know that is bad (strategy-wise and moral-wise), and of course the Avengers could not allow that to happen, but motivation and real conflict are missing. The army on the other side could have been anything: bears, llamas, space dragons, space robots, flame demons, anti-matter shadows, cybersharks, or anything, but all these suggestions and the aliens have the same thing in common. They lack depth, and because of that, who cares about the aliens?. Are there many comments in Avenger discussion threads about how much people hated those dreaded aliens and their dreaded not-agendas? How much of an impact did they make the audience?

We will refrain from going into how dumb it was to capture Loki, bring him to your airship, and fall for an obviously dumb trap. We will not talk about how contrived the tension was between the superheroes. We will not talk about how Hawkeye's and Black Widow's love story was started but went nowhere. Is there something else I missed from a short brainstorm? Let me be plain: it was a good movie if you plan on not thinking.

Also, post-script: in advance, smurf the comics. I am sure they have a rich and meaningful history which go into the alien invasion force and their background, but that was not presented at all in the film I watched.