Better Than Inception

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2016)

Why compare this movie to Inception? Well the city-bending special effects are way more prolific in this movie than Inception, which sold itself on such effects being in the trailers. That's a good thing, but it also made as little sense. Who cares though as this film is pure fantasy and it's SO packed with effects you won't care about its flaws; like why are they bending cities around to almost no effect. You can bend a city but you can't trap anyone? Are you doing all this just to show off what you can do? Who are you showing off to?
Overall an enjoyable movie packed full of these things but I don't think it makes it great. The imagery works for the film blending ancient magic and current times, but it's not Cumberbatch's best role and there are a lot of standardised movie comedy lines given to him which disrespect his great acting ability. Well placed being released before bonfire night here in the UK as a lot of sparkler sort of effects and such.
So should you see this movie? Of course, it's Doctor Strange! Will you love it? Probably. Did I like it? Yes. Was I astounded? No. Am I making any worth while point? Not really. Just go see it, enjoy it as much as you want to. He will show up in future Marvel Cinematic Universe films so you may as well get his intro movie watched.