Good Special Effects with a Weak Comic Book Premise

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2017)

What makes Earth so gosh-darn popular with megalomaniacs and super villains with big heads? Maybe because strange movies are so profitable in movie houses that serve beer and pizza. A planet-sized menace with hairy eyebrows covets the Planet Earth for no major apparent reason and engages a maniacal "time-bending" mystic to conquer Earth in his name. Yes, there was an old "Star Trek" movie (#5-Final Frontier") with such a "large" villain who gets mistaken for our "Supreme Being". Yawn. Fantastic special effects that kept several CGI studios busy working. The effects are a bit reminiscent of the gravity-defying angles and buildings used in "Inception" in 2010. Mystic nonsense. Fortunately for us such effects make for a great "popcorn movie" that I liked in spite of itself, for the fancy graphic effects alone. It almost made me dizzy on a small(er) 40" screen! Rachel McAdams plays the perky long-suffering female surgical "love interest". Best effect: The Doctor split into his physical and astral beings and directing his own ER surgery. Moral: Don't play with shards of glass from magic mirrors and stay away from time portals. Like James Bond, the time-bending Doctor will return in other Marvel Adventures. Whether he becomes another great "Iron Man" character or the now worn-out "Hulk" remains to be seen. I am still waiting for the battle of the Muscular Marvel Girls starring female heroines in skin-tight plastic leather, like She Hulk, Spider Woman, Black Cat, and Black Widow (Sigh.)