Fantastic - everything

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2016)

Brilliant acting, sensational graphics and action scenes, hilarious humour, deep insights and complex revelations, fantastic script and plot, exceptional characters, and extremely good direction - WOW !!
The 'action movie' has come a long way - and this movie is one that will be remembered for a long time. Hopefully, Hollywood realizes that THIS is the way to make an action movie, and we see more of the same in the future.
Take the best of Deadpool, the best of Guardians of the Galaxy, the best of Iron Man (and its spin offs), and add professional quality acting by many great actors, with some exceptional graphics (inception level), and an excellent script, and top that off with extremely good direction, casting, sound, editing and production - and you have the latest generation of action movie = Dr Strange. Never before in an action movie has there been such a depth of quality in all of those aspects and for it all to come together so brilliantly into the one modern action movie - unbelievable. In my opinion the direction of Scott Derrickson has come of age in one giant leap.
Sure, there have been some very good 'one/two man' action movies in the past, but this one provides a complex platform for several great actors to perform their stuff at the same time - and they all deliver. Any movie with 'big' roles for Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tilda Swinton is going to be good, but this one adds Mads Mikkelsen as the 'villian', and Benedict Cumberbatch as the 'hero' - awesome !!! But then add solid roles for Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Stuhlbarg, and the emerging Linda Louise Duan, and you have the basis for a serious film - let alone an 'action flick'. The modern action movie at its absolute best.