Doctor
Strange 9/10
There
will be some spoilers. I can never claim to be a fan of Doctor
Strange. Never bought the comic books but have watched an animated
movie and knew his basic story. Some asshole doctor gets into a
terrible car accident that ruins his hands and in desperation heads
into the mountains to get cured and ends up learning magic instead.
That's pretty much what happened in this but so much more. So much
more! I didn't give this a 9 out of 10 because I was surprised by how
much I loved this movie. I did because this is a cool ass movie and
one of my favorites of this year and Marvel movies in general. By the
way, I saw this in 3D at the Arclight in Hollywood and I would
suggest watching this in 3D if you can. I'm not usually a fan of them
but with a movie like this it worked great.
This
starts off with a sorcerer named Kaecilius played by Mads Mikkelsen
that break into a magical library to steal a page out of a book by
using magical fire whips and cutting the librarians head off. This
belongs to the Ancient One who is played by Tilda Swinton. They leave
everything else and bone out. Meanwhile Dr. Stephen Strange played by
Benedict Cumberbatch is showing off while doing neurosurgery. He is
working in someone's head while doing music trivia at the same time.
His boo thang Christine Palmer is played by Rachel McAdams.
He
invites her to a dinner but she declines saying it is fun for only
him. He hops into his car speeding like a lunatic in the rain when
while answering his phone flies off the road and the crash is crazy
as all fuck. That car flips, turns, you hear his hands get mangled,
and he lands in the water. He wakes being taken to surgery and later
wakes up crying when he sees his hands saying he could have done a
better job. He does not handle rehab well and tries every procedure
available and pushes Christine away. One day in rehab he is told of a
patient that was able to walk again after being paralyzed. He tracks
him down and finds out that he went far east to learn how to walk
again. It sounds like bullshit but Strange is damn near broke and
desperate.
He
arrives looking for this magical place to get his hands fixed and
gets his ass kicked before being saved by a guy named Mordo played by
Chiwetel Ejiofor. He takes Strange to meet the Ancient One and
Strange is pretty much doing everything possible to ensure that he is
not well liked or received by these people. It isn't until she slaps
the soul out of his body that he truly believes what he is told but
by that point she's like “Nah. You remind me of someone I don't
like. Get!”
I
don't want to spoil too much more of this great movie. I will point
out some things that surprised me. One is that I didn't see
Cumberbatch after a while. Whe I watched Sherlock everything I saw
him in afterward seemed like Sherlock playing someone else. With this
after a few minutes all I saw was Strange. The music is also really
good and memorable. That is a problem with a lot of Marvel movies,
songs that are forgettable. Don't even get me started on the special
effects. The look of them is not something I ever got used to. I
would see one hing and go “Wow. That is amazing!” and then
something else would blow my mind. Minutes later something else
would. I was like “Who the fuck thought of this?!” Visually this
is an incredible movie that thankfully has a really good story and
directing to back it up.
I know
a lot of people will skip talking about the great acting...like I did.
I know this. The acting in this movie was really good and I loved
every choice that was made, even the ones pissing people off because
they are not informed about political issues around the world that
would make having the Ancient One played to look like the original
version because they want what they want. Two years I wrote a blog
post asking Who Should Be Doctor Strange in which Cumberbatch was one
of my three choices and I am glad he won out.
I am
glad that this movie was made. I wasn't so sure about it before but
it fits right into the Marvel cinematic universe. Make sure to stay
through the credits for some extra scenes as well. Not bullshit ones
either. Oh, and before I forget. His cape made me laugh harder than
any comedy in the last three years. Yes. His cape.
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