Psychedelic wizard kung fu

Rating: 6/10 (12 February 2017)

As a once passionate comics fan, most often Marvel, I wasn't overly familiar with Dr. Strange, so I can't speak to how closely the film hewed to the canon. The casting was decent; I almost always like Mikkelsen, Cumberbatch, et al. The visuals-which I'm generally unimpressed by since almost anything can be done to a degree-were fantastic: psychedelic, dazzling, pretty. The story was OK, but I found the action itself played out mostly like another kung fu movie with a huge budget. I guess there's a challenge in providing an entertaining enough movie about sorcerers battling, but the battle sequences were sorta boring. Over all it was an entertaining watch, and I'm interested to see Strange shoehorned into the crowded movie Marvel universe.