Chris Hemsworth's 8 Most Underrated Movies. Fight Me on Number One, I Won't Back Down.

Everyone knows the hammer. Way fewer people saw the race car, the robot, the heist or the cabin. Eight Hemsworth movies that deserved more tickets.

Number one got a C CinemaScore. I'll still take it over Endgame.

1. 8
   The Avengers (2012)9.0

   Thor is the most underrated Avenger in the original.

   $1.52 billion worldwide, an A+ CinemaScore, and everybody quotes Downey and Ruffalo. Hemsworth plays a space god with a straight face. Nobody gives him credit for how hard that is.
2. 7
   Avengers: Infinity War (2018)8.5

   Infinity War is secretly the best Thor movie.

   Guru's Take of 8.6, IMDb 8.4, and Hemsworth gets the arc with actual weight in it. The knock: it's crowded, and he shares screen time with half the universe.
3. 6
   Thor: Ragnarok (2017)8.7

   Waititi gets the credit. Hemsworth earned half of it.

   93% on Rotten Tomatoes, $855M worldwide. The jokes land because Hemsworth commits like a guy who just found out he's funny. Guru's Take is 8.1 because the middle drags.
4. 5
   Transformers One (2024)8.5

   The best Transformers movie flopped and nobody noticed.

   8.5 movie.guru score, an A CinemaScore, then just $59.1M domestic against a reported $75M to $147M budget. Better than most of the live action robot movies. Fewer people went.
5. 4
   Crime 101 (2026)6.5

   Crime 101 is the grown-up heist movie nobody showed up for.

   88% on Rotten Tomatoes, $36.6M domestic on a reported $90M budget. The B CinemaScore tells you it's slow. Guru's Take is 7.3 because slow is kinda the point.
6. 3
   Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)8.0

   Dementus is Hemsworth's best performance, and theaters shrugged.

   Metacritic 79, Guru's Take 8.2, and only $67.5M domestic on a reported $168M budget. He chews every scene like it owes him gas money. The story drags in spots. He never does.
7. 2
   Rush (2013)8.3

   Rush is the best racing movie America skipped.

   IMDb 8.1 from over 569,000 voters, and just $26.9M domestic. Ron Howard directing, real stakes, real rivalry. The one knock: Daniel Brühl kinda steals it out from under him.
8. 1
   The Cabin in the Woods (2011)6.5

   The Cabin in the Woods beats Endgame. I said it.

   Audiences gave it a C CinemaScore. Critics gave it 92%. Guru's Take: 8.4. Endgame's: 7.8. Endgame has the 9.4 movie.guru score and the crowd. Cabin has the better idea.

$461.53 says somebody defends Endgame in the comments without ever having watched The Cabin in the Woods.

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