Marvel finally made a good comic book movie

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2017)

Marvel movies like the movies of its parent company Disney are the literal definition of mediocre and overrated. Through out the decade long tenure of the Marvel cinematic universe and over 10 big budget releases I can say with certainty that no one of the movies released stood out as an actually good comic book movie. Maybe an exciting action flick but not a good comic book movie and this is where even Fox surpasses Marvel let alone Sony with Spiderman films or Warner with its DC titles. Iron man didn't cut it and Avengers with its Chitauri invasion plot certainly didn't either. The reason for that is two things cinematography of Marvel movies which is uninspiring to say the least and Marvel's usual lack of interest or ability in preservation of its source material when transferred over to the big screen. Take Civil War into consideration a movie I watched again recently just prior to watching Doctor Strange and still ended it with being confused by the sheer idiocy of it. Marvel has been doing some really unappreciated things with its source material since the first day and when you want to bring in the comic book fans, the people that have made mcu actually possible you just should not treat these materials so badly. This is why the general consensus among the hardcore comic book community about mcu is mediocrity. In fact the only other movie of the mcu to come close is Guardiana of Galaxy and won't you know it it was a movie loved by both the average movie goer and the hardcore comic book fan.
So lets see what Doctor Strange did right. Doctor Strange kept it very real and close to the original material, it didn't mess around with important characters and plot points too much and kept it on point and interesting. There was no line or no shot wasted every thing had a point and delivered on its promise of leading to something else. The visual effects of the movie was just amazing, the cinematography of this movie was very well done and it was very good for a comic book movie. it was breathtaking to watch and if it wasn't for that explosion a few years back called inception it would have been really really ground breaking, alas. The choice of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange was perfect, he is a Supreme actor playing the part of sorcerer Supreme. The changes made to the Ancient One although unfortunate did not affect the character on a fundamental level and is possible to be ignored. The sound effects are sharp and good but the soundtrack vague and bland. The movie also includes the signature humor of mcu yet again while here unlike Avengers 2 or many other Marvel movies it does fit the situation and this actor,even though origin story of Strange is very dark and serious. Talking about origin story there were indeed some plot points missing in the movie like the first encounter of Strange and the people ofnthe ancient one or the monsters attacking earth etc but thid movie managed to savor as much as possible and very good at that too. It was very refreshing to watch a mcu film that didn't dumb down its plot to hide bad writing. Maybe it has a lot to do with the fact that this movie was much more visual heavy than dialog heavy but whatever it was I know I want more of thid. I can only hope that Black Panther movie follows something similar.