Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.
 
This is Thor's 4th "Stand-Alone" Feature Film Adventure.
 
Taika tried to duplicate what he did in Thor 3 by leaning heavily on its comedy instead of its drama & action, which in turn hurt this film's storyline.  
 
FUN FACT:  Christian Bale had initially turned down the possibility of appearing in any more comic book or superhero films after The Dark Knight Rises (2012), seeing the genre as uninteresting from an acting perspective, and especially finding the experience of donning the Batman costume to be a miserable one. He agreed to take part in this film however, after his kids begged him to take the role.