Review: Pacific Rim Uprising

I watched this film immediately after Pacific Rim. In hindsight maybe I should have waited a while. I might have been able to enjoy it better if the first one wasn't so fresh in my mind.

Pacific Rim Uprising (sometimes punctuated as Pacific Rim: Uprising) is the 2018 sequel to Pacific Rim. It has a new director and new characters, two things that nine times out of ten mark a decrease in quality.

I only recognised one of the new actors:

John Boyega (Finn in Star Wars) as Jake

The film is set ten years after the first one. The Kaiju are gone, and the Jaegars are going to be replaced by drones. Unfortunately it turns out that (SPOILER!) Newt of all people has become a traitor and is working with the Precursors. Yes, you read that right. No, it doesn't make much more sense in the film. Cue Kaiju going on the rampage and Jaegars fighting them again.

It's a struggle to find anything good to say about this film. The special effects were impressive, but as for the plot...

Everything that made the first film good is sadly missing. No sign of Raleigh, Mako unceremoniously killed off, a collection of uninteresting new characters, far too many subplots, and a dearth of Kaiju-Jaegar battles. I watched the first film precisely because I wanted to see giant robots fighting giant monsters, and this film only has one battle in the whole thing! A fairly long battle, yes, but it's still not enough. As for Mako's aforementioned fate, few fictional deaths have been more pointless or more infuriating 😠

Sequels have a depressing tendency to be underwhelming. This is one of the most underwhelming ones I've ever seen.

Is it available online?: Not as far I know.

Rating: 4/10

Review: Pacific Rim

 Forgot to post on Wednesday, and then I forgot to post yesterday too 😑 

Pacific Rim is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Guillermo del Toro. Although not actually based on an existing work, it's inspired by the plethora of monster movies and anime about giant robots. A sequel was released in 2018, and is currently at the top of my to-watch list.

I only recognised three actors. Weirdly enough, I recognised two from Charles Dickens adaptations -- not exactly the sort of association you'd expect.

Charlie Hunnam (Nicholas in Nicholas Nickleby 2002) as Raleigh

Burn Gorman (Guppy in Bleak House 2005) as Gottlieb

Idris Elba (Heimdall in Thor 2011) as Stacker

Kaiju (giant monsters, in case someone somewhere doesn't know what that means) are invading Earth. Humans build and pilot giant robots called Jaegers to destroy them. Unfortunately some idiots decide to stop building Jaegers, so when the monsters next attack it's up to our heroes and a few old Jaegers to defeat them.

I watched this film solely because I was bored and it looked cool. Giant robots fighting giant monsters are bound to be entertaining, if nothing else. It must be said the plot is predictable. (I guessed what was going to happen in the climax about half-way through.) I had no high expectations for the film. So imagine my surprise when it turned out to be good. Very good. It's like a Marvel film from back when the MCU was made of actual films instead of money-making monstrosities.

As long as you don't expect an original plot and don't mind occasionally cheesy dialogue, this film is thoroughly entertaining and has some great moments. The battles with the Kaiju are among my favourite film scenes ever!

Is it available online?: It probably is somewhere, but I don't know where.

Rating: 7/10

Review: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (novel)

A hallmark of Jules Verne's novels is the frequent lectures on chemistry, geography, technology, and other subjects. Half of this novel is a science fiction story. The other half is a sometimes out-of-date marine biology textbook.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (a more accurate translation is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas) is an 1871 novel by Jules Verne. It's one of his best-known works and has been adapted frequently; the most famous adaptation is of course the 1954 Disney film. It was followed by a sequel, The Mysterious Island, which I haven't read yet. Technically it's the second in a trilogy, preceded by In Search of the Castaways AKA The Children of Captain Grant, but it has no connection with the first book.

I watched the film before I read the book. So I expected the book would be like the film. Turns out, it isn't. What's even more surprising is that I actually like the film better.

Almost everyone knows the plot. Professor Arronax and his servant Conseil join the hunt for a sea monster. The sea monster turns out to be a submarine: the Nautilus, owned by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Arronax, Conseil, and their friend Ned Land become Nemo's prisoners, and travel all over the world before they finally escape.

The book is quite short. Unfortunately almost half of it is taken up with lists of the fish Arronax sees, technical details about how the Nautilus works, and other decidedly boring statistics. When I read a science fiction novel I expect it to be actually fiction. If I want a science lesson I'll just find a textbook.

Unlike the film the book doesn't end with Nemo's death. Our heroes sneak off the Nautilus (how they manage it is never explained), and Nemo's fate is left uncertain. Apparently The Mysterious Island explains it. But without reading that book, this one's ending is very unsatisfactory.

Is it available online?: Yes, on Gutenberg. (This is one of the best translations.)

Rating: 6/10.

Review: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (novel)

Jules Verne was a good author. Unfortunately his works have been subjected to many, many terrible translations.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an 1864 novel by Jules Verne. It's the third of his Extraordinary Voyages novels, and one of his best-known works. It's been adapted into at least four films and three miniseries. None of the adaptations stay close to the book.

The basic story is the same in both the original novel and the bad translations. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel find a mysterious message from a long-dead explorer claiming to have reached the centre of the earth. They immediately -- and reluctantly, in Axel's case -- go to Iceland, climb into a volcano, and set off for the earth's centre.

The translation I read made mincemeat of the novel, yet it still managed to be an interesting story. Unfortunately I can't read anything more complicated than basic French, and I don't know how to find a good translation. I suspect the translator responsible for what I read also couldn't read French. To start with, they changed the characters' names. Lidenbrock became Hardwigg and Axel became Harry. Apparently they also added scenes. I couldn't make heads or tails of Axel/Harry's bizarre dream(?) about a giant ape until I learnt it wasn't in the original novel.

I realised pretty quickly that I'd got one of the worst translations. When you read translated novels regularly you learn to spot the hallmarks of a subpar translator. If you're lucky you'll just get clunky prose. If you're unlucky, most of it's complete gibberish. But I persevered. As long as I reminded myself that the bad writing was the translator's fault and not Verne's, I could almost ignore it and focus on the plot.

Luckily the plot itself makes up for the translation. Sure, it's not at all plausible or scientifically accurate -- something the characters themselves comment on. But it's so interesting I had trouble putting it down.

If you find a good translation, this book is definitely worth reading. Unfortunately it's very difficult to tell which translations are good and which ones shouldn't be touched with a barge-pole. Even if you get one of the worse ones, you'll probably still enjoy the story -- though some scenes might leave you scratching your head.

Is it available online?: Yes, on Gutenberg. (Apparently this version is one of the better translations.)

Rating: The version I read gets 2/10. The story itself gets 7/10.

Review: Annihilation (2018)

Every so often you find a film that can't decide what genre it wants to be. Such films are almost always a mess. This one is even more of a mess than I expected.

Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction/horror/goodness-knows-what-else film very loosely based on the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer. The novel is part of a trilogy, but the film is a standalone.

I only recognised three of the actors:
Natalie Portman (Jane in Thor) as Lena
Oscar Isaac (Poe in Star Wars) as Kane
Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok) as Josie

Early in the film the main problem with it becomes only too apparent. The story keeps jumping around between the past and present. On its own that's not a problem, but the story also makes no sense. It feels like the writer, director, and actors all had different ideas of what the film was about.

Another major problem is the characters. To put it bluntly, they might as well be cardboard cutouts. They're interchangeable, unmemorable, and impossible to care anything for. I fast-forwarded until the main characters go into the Shimmer. Only then does the story become interesting.

The scenes in the Shimmer are really the only part of the film worth watching. They're incredibly eerie, beautiful, and terrifying. (In fact it was through seeing GIFs on Tumblr of the Shimmer that I first learnt of this film's existence. Let's just say I'd rather look at the GIFs than the film itself.) The bear attack is the most memorable, nightmarish thing I've seen for a long time.

Unfortunately, towards the end the film disintegrates into even more chaos. The alien's existence was easy to see coming. Its defeat and apparent death made sense. But then that final scene comes along and turns an underwhelming film into a mind-boggling mess. I wracked my brains trying to figure out what it meant. All I got was a headache.

If you want to watch a science fiction film, there are far better ones out there. (Pun unintentional.) If you decide to watch this film anyway, you're probably better off if you only watch the scenes in the Shimmer and stop the film as soon as the alien dies. That way you'll see the good parts without the boring or incomprehensible.

Is it available online?: I don't think so.

Rating: 4/10.

Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Thought I might as well review this film immediately after Jurassic World, so here it is 🙂

It is a truth universally acknowledged that sequels are rarely as good as the original. But occasionally you'll find a sequel that is just as good, or even better, than the first film(s).

This is one of those sequels.

They brought back the skeleton logo! Yay!

Fallen Kingdom starts several years after Jurassic World. (Apparently the prologue takes place a few months after it, but the main film is set three years later.)

A group of men retrieve a bone sample from the I. Rex, and in the process set the Mosasaur free. Then the film skips forward to the news that a volcano is about to erupt on the island where Jurassic World used to be... and where the dinosaurs still are. Claire and Owen gather a team to rescue the dinosaurs. Meanwhile, we meet a little girl called Maisie, whose grandfather -- or rather Eli Mills, someone who works for him -- is sending a group to "help" Claire, Owen and their friends.

Maisie

Frankly, the first thirty minutes or so of the film are pretty dull. Not a dinosaur in sight, except in the prologue. I usually skip forward to when Owen meets Blue the Velociraptor, and the group Mills sent turn out to be traitors. That's when the film becomes truly interesting.

The traitors kidnap as many dinosaurs as they can before the volcano erupts. Owen, Claire and Franklin, one of their friends, manage to get on the ship before it leaves, while Zia, another of their friends, tries to treat Blue, who's been shot. This treatment requires blood from the T. Rex. Owen and Claire have to get it.

Blue

Owen, Claire... and Rexy

Mills murders Maisie's grandfather and has the dinosaurs brought to his house, where they're going to be auctioned off to the highest bidders. Meanwhile, we learn that there's something in the basement.

Owen and Claire are captured, then escape with the help of a dinosaur. (Yes, really.) They meet Maisie, and she tells them about Mills and Dr. Wu's plots. The auction has begun, and the thing in the basement is properly introduced.

It's the Indoraptor, another genetically engineered dinosaur, created from (mostly) the I. Rex's DNA. And it's possibly the scariest dinosaur ever to appear in a Jurassic Park film. Most of the dinosaurs are just vicious animals. The Indoraptor has a twisted sense of humour and a fondness for hunting children -- specifically, Maisie. It even smiles. This thing is so unlike a dinosaur that I began to wonder if it's supposed to be part-human. Dr. Wu (AKA the Dr. Frankenstein of Jurassic Park) made it, so it's not impossible.

The Indoraptor

The Indoraptor is what makes this film truly great. The first half is just average; no worse than Jurassic World but no better either. But from the minute the Indoraptor tries to grab Maisie from the shadows, the film takes a turn towards Gothic horror, and becomes a much better film for it.

Anyway, a mercenary's idiocy leads to the Indoraptor rampaging through the house, while our heroes try to evade it. At the same time poisonous gas is flooding the other dinosaurs' cells. Zia and Franklin try to get the ventilation systems to work... and accidentally turn on the lights all over the house, just when Owen, Claire and Maisie were relying on darkness to escape the Indoraptor.

The Indoraptor chases Maisie up to her bedroom. Owen tries to shoot it, but apparently Dr. Wu made it bulletproof. Then Blue arrives to save the day. Owen and Maisie escape out the window and end up on a glass roof. The Indoraptor chases them. With Claire and Blue's help they make it fall through the roof, right onto the horns of a skeleton below.

Blue standing on the Indoraptor's corpse

One threat's dealt with, but poisonous gas is still slowly killing the dinosaurs. Claire considers setting them free, but decides it would be disastrous. Instead Maisie frees them. The film ends with dinosaurs running loose all over America. Suddenly "Jurassic World" takes on a whole new meaning.

So, what do I think of the film overall?

The beginning is slow and rather dull. The plot only picks up when the volcano erupts. But thankfully, the rest of the film more than makes up for the beginning. The entire Indoraptor sequence is better than the second and third films combined. (Not that it takes much to be better than the third film...) And Maisie's origin is an interesting twist that raises all sorts of questions.

A lot of people were delighted by Dr. Malcolm's cameos at the beginning and end. Frankly, those were the dullest parts of the film for me. Dr. Malcolm has always been my least favourite of the characters from the original film. Why he appeared and not Dr. Grant or Dr. Sattler -- or a grown-up Lex or Tim -- is a mystery.

Is it available online?: I don't think so.

Rating: 7/10.

Review: Jurassic World (2015)

Apparently I'm plunging back into the world of science fiction/fantasy for a while 🤷

When I was a child I was obsessed with dinosaurs. The girls I went to school with were interested in Star Wars, Disney, fairies, mermaids, and things like that, but I liked dinosaurs. I covered my room with pictures of them. I read every book I could find on them. So obviously, I loved the Jurassic Park films. As I got older I lost interest in dinosaurs, but when I heard there was a new Jurassic Park film being made, I knew I just had to see it.

Why didn't they use the famous skeleton logo for the title? This just isn't the same 😞

I didn't recognise many of the actors, and honestly I didn't pay much attention to the human characters. I was more interested in the dinosaurs.

The basic plot of Jurassic World is more or less the same as every other Jurassic Park film. People create dinosaurs, dinosaurs go on a rampage, there's running and screaming, people die. It has some elements that are original, though, which makes it feel less like a remake of the first film.

Years after the disaster at the original Jurassic Park, a new park is up and running: Jurassic World. But there's a problem: people are getting tired of seeing the same old dinosaurs again and again. (This is the most unbelievable thing in the whole film. Who could ever get tired of seeing dinosaurs?) So the scientists who clone the dinosaurs have come up with a solution. They're going to genetically engineer a whole new dinosaur! And they're going to make it as aggressive as possible!

Can you see how this is going to go horribly wrong? Yes? Then you're smarter than they are.

Unfortunately, this creature is also smarter than they are.

Anyway, they make the Indominus Rex. Actually they make two, but one of them eats the other. Masrani, the owner of Jurassic World, is alarmed when he realises how terrifying the I. Rex is, so he gets his assistant Claire to ask Owen, the park's raptor trainer, to look at it. When Owen and Claire reach the I. Rex's cage, it's missing.

You can already see where this is going.

The I. Rex

The I. Rex escapes and goes on a rampage. There's running and screaming. People die. The average Jurassic Park stuff, really. But then an idiot called Hoskins has the bright idea to use the raptors to track down the I. Rex.

Someone should really have realised earlier that the I. Rex is part raptor.

The raptors and the I. Rex

The raptors turn against Owen and go on a rampage. Things look pretty bad for our heroes... but then Owen manages to regain the raptors' loyalty.

Owen, Claire, Claire's nephews, and the raptors.

The raptors attack the I. Rex, and apparently all of them die. Claire has an idea: she's going to set the T. Rex free. And then she's going to personally lead it to where the I. Rex is trying to kill Owen and her nephews. This scene is just slightly unbelievable. (Claire outruns the T. Rex while wearing high heels? Whoever thought of that has clearly never tried to run in high heels... or walk in them, either.) But it's so awesome that I don't really care.

The fight goes badly for the T. Rex at first. But then Blue, one of the raptors, appears, alive and well. And the I. Rex gets dragged off by the Mosasaur.

The picture isn't the clearest, but this is the Mosasaur attacking the I. Rex.

Blue and the T. Rex wander off, and Owen, Claire and the boys get safely off the island. Yay, happy ending -- for now.

So, what did I think of it?

I don't watch Jurassic Park films for the human characters and their problems. I just want to see the dinosaurs. The more dinosaurs, the happier I am. And judged by that standard alone, this film is one of my favourite Jurassic Park films. It has raptors, a T. Rex, a Mosasaur (alright, so that one's not truly a dinosaur, but still), and the I. Rex. It has some gory scenes. It has dinosaurs attacking people and each other. Even better, it has a fight between raptors, a T. Rex and the I. Rex. That's all I ask for in these films, so I thoroughly enjoyed it.

If you want a film with a gripping plot, this isn't the film for you. If you're like me and just want to see dinosaurs, it definitely is the film for you.

Is it available online?: Probably not.

Rating: 6½/10.

Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

I've never been much of a Star Wars fan. I enjoy watching the original trilogy (and occasionally watch the prequel trilogy to laugh at it), but I've never been as utterly obsessed with it as some of my friends are.

This film changed that.

(The way the Star Wars films open makes it really hard to get screencaps of just the title and not the expository text. I never realised how annoying this is until now.)

The plot is pretty similar to A New Hope. Character from a sandy planet gets caught up in saving the galaxy, villains have a weapon that destroys planets, main villain is related to the heroes... But there are enough differences that it doesn't feel like a complete rehash.

I'm pretty sure everyone recognises the actors, so let's go straight to the plot.

Years have passed since the end of the original trilogy, and the First Order is the latest villainous group to try to take over the world -- er, galaxy. I was rather dubious about this when I first watched the film. "Seriously? Of all the possible plots out there, you had to go with another "villains take over the galaxy" one?" But moving on, Princess Leia (now General Leia) has sent her best pilot, Poe Dameron (and his droid BB-8), to find a piece of a map that'll lead the Resistance to Luke Skywalker.

Poe

BB-8, probably the most adorable droid ever to appear in Star Wars.

BB-8 escapes with the map, but Poe is captured by First Order stormtroopers and Kylo Ren.

Kylo Ren, Darth Vader-wannabe. (On a completely unrelated note, I really wish I knew how to refer to him. Is "Ren" his title and "Kylo" his name, or the other way round? Is "Kylo Ren" even a name at all?)

BB-8 finds Rey, a scavenger, who somewhat reluctantly lets him stay with her. Poe, meanwhile, escapes the First Order with the help of Finn, a defecting stormtrooper.

Rey and BB-8

Finn

Finn and Poe crash on Jakku, the planet where Rey and BB-8 are. Poe is apparently killed in the crash. Finn makes his way to the nearest town, where he meets Rey and BB-8. Then the First Order arrives, and the three of them have to escape in a ship Rey describes as "garbage": the Millenium Falcon.

I nearly died laughing when I realised which ship she meant.

They escape, meet Han and Chewie, have a very narrow escape from some pretty nightmarish monsters, and go to visit Maz, someone Han thinks can get BB-8 to Leia. Unfortunately the First Order turn up again. A battle ensues. In the middle of it Finn learns he can use a lightsaber, Poe reappears alive and well, and Kylo Ren captures Rey. Shortly afterward, Leia turns up (with C-3PO!) and has a long-overdue reunion with Han.

Leia, Han... and Threepio

By this time we've learnt the terrible truth about Kylo Ren. He's Han and Leia's son, Ben Solo, who turned to the Dark Side because of Snoke, Supreme Leader of the First Order.

Rey saw the map, and Kylo tries to get it from her mind. He fails spectacularly, and storms off to sulk. Rey uses her newly-discovered Force powers to escape.

Rey and Kylo (without his helmet)

Rey escaping with the (Force-assisted) help of a stormtrooper.

Meanwhile we've learnt what the First Order is doing. General Hux, who's supposed to be Kylo's co-commander but is more like an exasperated underling, is creating Starkiller Base, a new sort of Death Star that can wipe out multiple planets at once (as they demonstrate, unfortunately for the Hosnian system).

The Resistance sets out to destroy Starkiller. Finn helps Han and Chewie get into the base and lower the shields so Poe and his friends can blow it up. Along the way they meet up with Rey... and Han meets Kylo. This is a moment that always leaves me in tears, because... Kylo kills Han 😭

*sobs uncontrollably*

Finn and Rey fight Kylo while the planet is falling apart around them. And Rey discovers she has the Force, and fights Kylo with Luke's old lightsaber. Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds.

The Resistance destroy Starkiller, Rey and Finn escape, Kylo is presumably rescued and returned to Snoke, the galaxy is (temporarily) safe... There's just one thing left to do. Find Luke. So Rey follows the now-intact map and finds him. And then... the film ends. (I was really annoyed by this cliffhanger at first. It's become slightly less exasperating now that the sequel's out, but still.)

So, my overall opinion of the film? I love it. Is it the best Star Wars film? No. Does it borrow too much from previous films? Probably. (How many times can this series use Death Stars before they find a more original plot?) But is it a good film in spite of that? Yes!

Rey is awesome. At first her ability to fly the Falcon seemed a bit unrealistic, but then it was revealed she has the Force and it made perfect sense. Poe's survival comes out of nowhere, but I can forget about that and focus on his amazing piloting skills. Finn is just as awesome as Rey. In the space of a few hours he goes from being a stormtrooper to being lost in a desert to shooting TIE fighters. And BB-8 is simply adorable.

On the villainous side, there's the surprisingly sympathetic Kylo Ren. If you'd told me before I saw this film that my favourite character would be the crazy Darth Vader fanboy who murders Han, I'd have thought you were as crazy as Kylo. But then I saw the film. And Kylo became not just my favourite character in it, but one of my favourite characters in the whole Star Wars series. Guess I should have realised by now that I just really like tragic villains 🤷 First Loki, then Maeglin, now Kylo.

Is it available online?: Probably, but I don't know where.

Rating: 7/10.

Review: Thor (2011)

I'm taking a short break from period drama reviews to review a film I fell in love with when it was first released. Well, I didn't fall in love with the film. I fell in love with a character in it.

(You probably already know who.)

Thor isn't a straight-up adaptation of Norse mythology; it's an adaptation of Marvel Comic's adaptation of Norse mythology. So obviously it's not very close to the original myths. I'm not a comics fan so I can't say how close it sticks to the comics, but other people's remarks make me think it's a loose adaptation of them too.

Every so often you find a film that is just average on its own, but has a character/a plot/a song (if it's a musical)/a scene that you fall in love with. Thor is one of those films. I frankly couldn't care less about Thor's romance with Jane, and his quest to get back to Asgard is interesting but not enough to hold my attention. Every time I watch this film (and I've seen it dozens of times), it's because of Loki.

I'm pretty sure absolutely everyone knows the actors, so I won't even bother listing them. Instead I'll go straight to the plot. Not the entire plot, just the important parts.

The story begins Jane trying to get photos of a storm, only for a man to appear out of nowhere and hit her van. Then it flashes back to the events leading to this situation.

Odin, King of Asgard, tells his young sons, Thor and Loki, about a war between the Æsir and Jötnar/Frost Giants.

Young Loki, young Thor, and Odin

Then we jump forward about a thousand years. Thor and Loki are now adults, and Thor is about to be crowned King of Asgard. The ceremony is interrupted when a group of Frost Giants sneak into Asgard. Thor, egged on by Loki, takes some of his friends and goes to Jötunheim in retaliation. A fight breaks out. And in the middle of it, Loki is grabbed by a Jötunn... and sees his skin inexplicably turn blue.

The moment that set Loki on his path to villainy. Poor Loki 😢

Odin rescues Thor and co., then promptly banishes Thor for nearly starting a war. Thor ends up on Earth, where he crashes into Jane's van.

Loki, back on Asgard, discovers that he is a Jötunn. Not just any Jötunn, but the son of King Laufey. He takes this revelation... pretty badly. Just to make things worse, Odin -- in a display of spectacularly bad parenting -- has raised him to hate and fear Jötnar.

Result: Loki goes off the deep end. He decides the best way to cope with this is to nearly murder Thor, and try to destroy Jötunheim.

It doesn't end well for poor Loki. In fact, it ends in attempted suicide, and him becoming a full-fledged villain 😭

Don't let go, don't let go... NOOOOO! 😭😭

The film ends with Asgard cut off from Earth thanks to Loki's actions. But after the credits there's a scene that reveals Loki is still alive, and on Earth. I'd cheer, but considering what he's on Earth to do...

So, what do I think of it overall?

Thor's plot is pretty average and predictable. And to make things worse, I can't think of a single scene where his romance with Jane feels natural. Every time they interact it's painfully obvious that this subplot is here just because the director/script writer/producer/whoever thought the film needed a romance subplot and didn't care if it was believable.

Loki, on the other hand, is the greatest character in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. He's tragic, he's losing his mind, and I feel so sorry for him even when he's trying to blow up a planet. This is one of the reasons why I'm not the biggest fan of Loki's characterisation in later films, incidentally. From The Avengers onward he stops being a tragic villain and becomes just a villain. A fascinating, amusing villain, but a much less sympathetic one.

Is it available online?: Probably, but I'm not sure where. I've heard it's on Netflix, but I don't have Netflix so I don't know if that's still true or not.

Rating: 5/10 for the plot, and 8/10 for Loki.