not your usual Marvel superhero flick

Rating: 8/10 (14 November 2016)

Have seen the trailer at the local theatre I wanted to see it because superheroes, sure, I can dig their world. But this time it wasn't all about superheroes fighting against the bad ones.
Doctor Strange is a normal person who has a terrible accident with his car. He can't live with the fact that he can't use his hands anymore and up he goes to the spiritual world to be learned at Kathmandu.
It's all about the astral world and other dimensions and levitation. My cu of tea so for me this flick really did work. Somehow it reminded me of Batman Begins (2005) were Batman is also trained up in the mountains.
The story did work fine and the acting of Benedict Cumberbatch (as the doctor) was sublime. Naturally the bad guy Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) and The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton )did also elevate this to a higher region on acting.
But i's also the effects used that were stunning on parts of the dimension. An excellent flick clocks in at a perfect time, never boring and even as it do has a lot of talking going on it still delivers.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 5/5 Story 4/5 Comedy 0,5/5