Ragnarok (Gåten Ragnarok) (2013)

Following in the giant footsteps of André Øvredal's Troll Hunter (2010) is this creature feature - nothing to do with superheroes - also set in the wildest reaches of Norway, but where Troll Hunter plumbed Norwegian folklore and came up with a creature feature that was inventive, this movie is far more tired with its main character, a gormless cross between an Indiana Jones archeologist and an Alan Grant paleontologist, banging on for the first half of the movie about Norse mythology - Oseberg ship artefact finding, runic alphabet-deciphering, code-breaking and very loose history-building - but only as an extremely longwinded way of getting him and his two children and a few other hangers-on to a Jurassic Park in Finnmark where a giant monster briefly harrasses them.

★☆☆☆☆

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Kon-Tiki (2012)

Thor Heyerdahl made an Academy Award-winning documentary about his audacious adventure in 1947 travelling from South America to Polynesia on his balsa raft, Kon-Tiki, but this is a dramatised version, great viewing, which suggests anthropological research was just one of Heyerdahl's motivations, that from childhood he enjoyed the attention that brazen stunts brought him.

★★★★☆

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