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A much-needed shuffling of the narrative works wonders here, lending mystery to an otherwise dull superhero origin story. Your mileage for god-out-of-water shenanigans may vary, but to my mind, the addition of the deleted scenes hinder, rather than help, though. Pacing was already a problem for the original cut and this isn't helped particularly by adding more scenes to the mix. For my next MCU and/or Thor re-watch I'm curious to try Malthus' non-Godsized re-cut of this same film, to see if the pacing is more to my liking. (When a major character takes an extended nap in the middle of a movie, my immediate reaction should ideally not be "oh, what a lucky guy.")

However, aside from my quibbles about the runtime, this is a technically excellent edit, with plenty to recommend it.