The way she commits to this crazy, ridiculous, over-the-top goddess makes you crave more and more of her, so much so that you're halfway between rooting for her and hoping she somehow has a change of heart and comes to the good side. And even with so little to work with, Blanchett manages to steal nearly every scene she's in. The result is a one-time big bad who may very well never come back. All of these different aspects, amped up to 100 percent, help paint Hela as the caricatured-yet-flawless villainess she is. Even Blanchett's sauntering gait, where her hips sway almost comically in both directions with each passing step, is nothing short of hypnotizing. She has a fantastic cape that's billowy but not too billowy. With a quick pass of her hands along her somehow always wet and very piecey hair, she grows an astonishing head of horns that I'm sure will pop up on a drag queen's head sometime in the next year. To compound Blanchett's electrifying performance, the visuals created for the goddess are truly stunning and jaw-dropping. Her melodramatic depiction of a villainess who knows she's ridiculous and leans into it just makes the whole thing that much more enchanting. If I were to attribute three words to her performance, it would be "extra, extra, extra." But somehow, by some magical combination of all the aforementioned ingredients, it works. This, I think, is why Blanchett turns the volume all the way up. There's just something about the phrasing and cadence that seems clumsy and wordy and hard to spit out. A lot of the dialogue - specifically the lines uttered by goth diva Hela - is pretty clunky. There is one aspect of Ragnarok that I can't sugarcoat, however. But, I mean, there's something to be said about the fact that I'm still talking about it, right? And now, she's taking the spotlight from Thor, the God of Thunder himself. I still, to this day, make fun of her Russian accent in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. She easily stole the show as Cinderella's wicked stepmother in 2015's lavish live-action iteration of the story.
Secondly, maybe it's because her greatest villains have always appeared in very heightened projects. What is it about an evil Cate Blanchett that really sucks me in? First of all, the cheekbones. What Those 2 Postcredits Scenes in Thor: Ragnarok Mean
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