Visually spectacular movie bogged down by a cliché origin story

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2016)

The Surprisingly good super hero movie where the a brilliant, but arrogant egoistic doctor gets convinced to join the good fight by kaleidoscopic visions of John Lennon's Rolls Royce
WARNING: MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS
The good  Solid performances all round by the cast  Benedict Cumberbatch; well, he is a thing on his own and could not be covered by the point above  Amazing visuals; think inception on 4K steroids (if you watch it in 3D)  Surprisingly funny Mr. Dragain; too big to be covered by the point above
The bad  Cliché origin story  Underdeveloped villain: Kaecilius had less backstory than the enchantress from Suicide Squad; and that is saying A LOT What the hell is the motivation of the villain again? Seriously the guy wants to invite a big bad to take over the world so that he can live in a 'forever timeless convoluted existence'? How is that even attractive to ANYONE???!!!  The timing of the reveal that The Ancient One was drawing magic from the dark dimension: that killed any emotional connection I had with her, hence making her death very very emotionally blunt  Related to the point above; the movie did not make me 'feel things'. I was very detached from the characters and I honestly could care less what happens to them after this. For a movie with time as a key aspect to the progression of characters and plot, you could hardly tell how long Doctor Strange took to become so gooda week, a month, a year, a decade, really couldn't tell.
Now to nit-picking  I wanted to see more of martial arts combined with magic, it looked so cool when done but there was very little of that. Come on Marvel, didn't making Captain America kick serious butt in Winter Soldier teach you anything: nearly everyone likes some cool kicking and flipping and all that fancy fighting.  So a master of a sanctum was killed in a minute flat by Kaecilius and Doctor Strange who had trained for the entirety of a whole month managed to hold his own against the killers of this master? Wow dude, you got really good really fast!  No big closing action scene; just make Doctor Strange fight Kaecilius in Hong Kong, is that too much to ask for? Really?  RT gave this a 90%, there is no way this is a 90%, NO WAY!!!