The central notion of discovering one's unique personal identity («the only thing that matters is what you choose to be now») takes us back to an earlier China and it's free of jokey references to other movies. (theguardian.com)
In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car. (qwipster.net)
Marvel has perhaps become too reliant on its loose, jokey tone in recent years, and it's easy to criticize Ragnarok on similar grounds. (vox.com)