Tag: Christian Bale

Thor: Love and Thunder

Thor: Love and Thunder

dir. Taika Waititi (2022)

Film poster: “Thor: Love and Thunder” dir. Taika Waititi (2022)

Most of the film is played for laughs. Chris Hemsworth just about gets away with it but the humour is undercut by consciously hammy acting and ‘unkillable god’ computer-game action scenes. Christian Bale rules the starker moments, channelling his inner Richard O’Brien.

Public Enemies

Public Enemies

dir. Michael Mann (2009)

Mann_Public Enemies

Directed by Michael Mann (Heat) and starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, and several notables in support, this crime drama biopic of 1930s bank robber John Dillinger should have been a sure-fire classic. Instead, almost indefinably, it fails to take off.