Apparently the Norwegians just can't keep their fingers off the Norse gods as a vehicle for doing fantasy to compete with the Hollywood mega-budget appropriation of Thor at al. for superheroics. This does have a different take on the mythology, in that an locally-born American backpacker in the fjords can't understand what keeps on happening to him when he's provoked, shooting off lightning in all directions and developing worse and worse burns on his body. But you do know pretty early on where it's going, and the involvement of a sympathetic psychiatrist and policeman helping him to evade the authorities, who are figureheaded by an improbably Asian U.S. government agent, doesn't manage to prevent the inevitable. You can easily tell that Mortal was conceived when the USA started turning into an evil empire again, and is touchingly optimistic about its appeal by leaving room for a continuation.
4/10
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