One of the best Marvel movies ever made

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2017)

A few years ago when I found out that Benedict Cumberbatch was being cast as the title character in this movie I was totally against that choice because I felt that he didn't really look like Dr. Strange, but when I first saw the theatrical posters for this movie I immediately changed my mind. As the movie opens we see Strange and his girlfriend Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) who also happens to be a nurse at the same hospital where Strange works, and not to much later we see Strange get into a very dangerous car accident and suffers from severe nerve damage as a result of the accident. After Strange recovers he goes to a basketball court and talks to a man named Jonathan Pangborn (Benjamin Bratt) who was paralyzed and tells Strange about this place in Turkey that allowed him to walk again. So Strange goes there and seeks help to heal his nerves meeting a man named Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and a monk called "The Ancient One" (Tilda Swinton) who teach him about the mystic arts. Strange is also required to read books on specific topics of sorcery and meets the librarian there named Wong (Benedict Wong).Then trouble arises and Strange has to fight a sorcerer who was taught by "The Ancient One" named Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) and his minions in order to save the world from "The Dark Dimension". The film was directed by Scott Derrickson who also co-wrote the screenplay with C. Robert Cargill and Jon Spaihts which all three of them did an effective job of focusing on the characters rather than on the fight scenes and special effects, and also at times the dialogue is completely hilarious. The performances are very good especially from Cumberbatch, McAdams, Ejiofor, Swinton, and Mikkelsen. The special effects are reminiscent of Christopher Nolan's "Inception" (2010), and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), but the only difference is that this movie didn't win its well deserved Oscar in the visual effects category even though Jon Favreau's "The Jungle Book" was a good choice but the special effects weren't as good as this movie. Though this isn't in my top ten movies of last year it is pretty close to making that list but this movie won't evade my memory anytime soon thanks to its greatness.