Doctor Strange Film Review

Finished watching Doctor Strange, directed by Scott Derrickson and staring Mads Mikkelsen, Tilda Swinton, Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel McAdams. The film opens up with the villain Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) braking into the library of the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) to steal pages from a book that contains the ritual that would put the world in immense danger. The film than transitions over to New York were Doctor Steven Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) asks his colleague Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) to go out with him that night as he's doing a speech. However on the way Strange getting into a car crash that severely damages his hands that leads him to constantly paying for treatment to get his hands back the way they use to be. With everything failing Strange's last hope takes him to Nepal where he meets the Ancient One and begins to train within art of the magic in hope to mead his hands. Overall this was an amazing film as it introduces the magical side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe very nicely while still being attached to the rest of the universe as well. There is a great amount of character interactions thanks to Marvel's type of comedy that helps to make characters like the Ancient One see more human and relatable. While there is also a nice amount of development for most of the characters with in the film which bring about some powerful moments and while the villain of the piece is extremely one dimensional it does help to build the future of Marvel's films for later on. Additionally the visuals of the film works extremely well with the characters for the multiple dimensions that look jaw dropping amazing to the magic that is use in the fight scenes fit organically to the fight choreography of the actors and the stunt team. 9/10.