Visual splendor!

Rating: 9/10 (23 November 2016)

I was slightly worried heading into the movie, but I ended up really enjoying it.
The main takeaway is that it actually feels like it is worth the price of admission. It isn't perfect but it never dips too low in quality, and when it soars, it really flies high. The visuals were fantastic and the characters were great. For a first movie it avoided being overly expository in general by weaving the explanations into the plot... So many Marvel movies just dump "how it all works" on you straight up, it was nice to have things shown more incidentally as part of the story.
For me this is one of the best Marvel films that has been made. It's definitely better than the latest Avengers or X-Men movies.
Even when it threatens to get boring with overdone and overlong action sequences, it manages to create some new wrinkles in the story to develop some interest.
I feel like this is one of the best treatments of a Marvel superhero yet done in film. Unlike 90% of their universe Dr. Strange actually bears hallmarks of being a real person. The only other character with this level of personality development would be Deadpool in my view. The other characters like Wolverine for example, I hate to say, just seem so one dimensional by comparison.
Hopefully this is a sign of things to come for the Marvel Universe!