The latest offering in the Marvel Cinematic Universe made its way to Indian theatres on July 7, a day early from its release in the United States. Reviews are in for Thor: Love and Thunder and the Rotten Tomatoes score for the film is not looking great. The score for the movie is currently at 70% based on 183 reviews at the time of this publication, which is certainly not a bad score, but it lands the Taika Waititi-directed flick into the low end of MCU movies.
While reviews aren’t necessarily the final judgement of a movie, it is telling that Thor: Love and Thunder barely has a better score than 2008’s The Incredible Hulk which sits at 67%. Another film in the series, 2013’s Thor: The Dark World is at 66% and last year’s Eternals has 47% on the Tomatometer.
MCU movies with the highest score on the Tomatometer are Black Panther with 96%, Avengers: Endgame with 94%, and the first Iron Man movie with 94%.
The critical consensus by Tomatometer says the following about Thor: Love and Thunder: “In some ways, Thor: Love and Thunder feels like Ragnarok redux — but overall, it offers enough fast-paced fun to make this a worthy addition to the MCU.”
This overall score might change a bit in the coming few days, but not by much. This goes to show that the movie is not doing as well with critics as Marvel would hope.
Thor: Love and Thunder released a day early on July 7 in India. Marvel announced that the film will have an uninterrupted run of 96 hours in select theatres across the country. The first show started past midnight at 12:15 am. Marvel will showcase the film for four days straight until midnight on July 10.