"What if I told you the reality you know is one of many?"

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2016)

Doctor Strange has finally come out and the floodgates of reviews and IMDb scores are coming in at long last, and the census is that the film is good, damn good. Sure the plotting can be derivative of Marvel's earlier films and there may be holes in some of the logic, but Benedict Cumberbatch is wonderful as Strange, and Tilda Swinton gives a respectable take on the Ancient One, though I thought Chiwetel Ejiofor's Mordo fell short of the other characters in the film because he's acts too sensitive for a mystic so wise.
Stephen Strange is a neurosurgeon whose ability is lost in a car accident resulting in his hands getting severed. To heal himself of this pain, he heads to Kathmandu, Nepal to learn from The Ancient One, a mystical person who possesses powers beyond Strange's comprehension. Through The Ancient One, Strange aims to become something greater than himself.
Marvel has given us their fourteenth entry in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) and they've already built their own origin-structure to bring in unfamiliar characters to the masses with great actors heading the production. Doctor Strange is like Inception's-LSD-influenced--Batman-Begins-&-Harry-Potter-crossover mixed in with philosophy and archetypes influenced by The Matrix and Star Wars films. Doctor Strange is a good experience filled with what-the-f### visuals mixed in with an easy-to-follow story that falls a little short of its reality-defying and gorgeous visual effects. Doctor Strange is an experience that may even wow the most bias critics of CGI effects; these ones are something else.
Go see this movie when it arrives in American theaters November 4th.