What a complete joke. He has no place anymore in the MCU.
Rumor is Taika won't be back for Thor 5. But he already started ruining him in 4. I still have no desire to watch this when it hits D+ in a week. And Thor is one of my two favorite Marvel characters.
There was a time when every Marvel movie had at least one repeat worthy scene. Like a segment where you'd want to watch a video clip of it on YouTube again because it was so cool or interesting or epic.
Think Captain America WS in the elevator where Rogers is asking if anyone wants to get out before they all start fighting or the single meek analyst who refuses to launch the carrier despite a gun pointed at his head. Or the GOTG1, when the entire crew breaks out of prison together. Or the first Captain America with the grenade scene. Even a relatively bad movie like Thor 2 had Loki shouting at his mother Frigga, but in complete regret that he did it.
There isn't one single rewatchable nor memorable scene in Love And Thunder. Not a single one. Ragnarok worked because you had massive acting talent ( Hopkins, Blanchett, Elba, Hiddleston, Cumberbatch, etc, etc) supporting a true adventure with a real plot that happened to have comedy in it.
And if you don't have a real plot or narrative, at least fill it with big dumb action set pieces. Give people spectacle if you can't give them a cohesive story. Even the action in Love And Thunder was bad.
And where is Thor going to go as a character? He had 3 standalone films plus 4 Avengers films. Part of the L&T problem was there was nowhere left to go. There was nowhere to take this but to kill him off. While I actually really do like Hemsworth in general, this was the film to actually just have the guts to kill him off.
I was really looking forward to this because I was hoping for Thor to be part of a larger GOTG adventure, a team up film. Go find Zoe Saldana/Gamora, the End Game variant, and bring her back so she can rejoin the team, that's a worthy plot for L&T. Go find the TV show version of Loki, that too is an interesting MacGuffin.
You can't really blame Feige too much here. Taika saved the Thor franchise. He pumped real new life into it. And if Hemsworth would only sign on if Taika directed another, then he was sort of cornered. This film was a failure in refusing to keep it extremely simple. If they stuck to Basic Storytelling 101, as well as jettisoning all the characters no one cares about ( Portman and Thompson the most), this could have been at least average.