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I am
(admittedly) late to the party with Doctor Strange. After all, the movie came out on Friday and
it’s already Tuesday! However, I did
finally watch it yesterday, and I have to say: it was worth waiting for. There is a ton of good stuff in it to comment
on, but I will save most of it for my next review which will have spoilers.
For now,
we’ll just have to content ourselves with this.
Stephen
Strange is of course the focus of the movie, and Benedict Cumberbatch does an
excellent job in the title role. In terms
of character development, we learn everything we need to know about Strange
with very little in the way of exposition; it’s all very natural. The character undergoes a complete arc, right
up until the end of the movie. All of
the important relationships—with Christine Palmer and Mordo, especially—are handled
well and very believably.
After
Strange, I think Mordo is the most important character in the movie, and his
relationship with both Strange and the Ancient One is handled extremely
well. In terms of motivations, his is
perhaps the most developed and believable of all the characters except
Strange. I am really excited for this
character and want to see where his story will go from here (is that a
spoiler? If it is, it’s not much of
one).
Kaecilius
isn’t the most well-developed villain in the MCU—that is still something of an
issue for the universe. His motivation
is certainly clear, but how he came to that point is not so clear. That’s certainly not a deal-breaker for the
movie, however, as it stands very well on its other positive aspects.
The visuals
in this movie are absolutely mind-blowingly good. There are a few sequences that are
out-of-this-world in terms of being a wild acid trip without the acid. I did not see it in 3-D, but I could
definitely tell from the 2-D experience that the 3-D would really pop for
certain scenes. But at the same time, I felt
really disoriented just from the 2-D, so I do wonder just how disorienting the
3-D would be!
All told, I absolutely
recommend seeing this movie. It is a lot
of fun and will certainly prove vital to the future of the MCU. Just remember to stay afterward because there
are mid-credits and after-credits scenes, and both are important.
If you’ve
seen the movie yet, what did you think?
Let me know in the comments! Just
avoid spoilers.
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