Interesting movie

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2016)

I agree with other negative reviewers when they say the main characters were not developed enough to care about them. They don't have a good build-up to see progression or personal growth. I can't comment on acting because I get too caught up in the plot to notice acting. I notice the bad acting in a lot of Lifetime movies though. People are complaining about the formulaic plot, but I was too distracted by the weird sorcery, time travel, and dimension thing to notice it. Witchcraft in this movie was portrayed in a very different manner than what I am used to seeing in other movies, so it particularly distracted me. The evil elements and villains were really different from what I was used to seeing, and that made the movie interesting even if the plot was too much of a brain dead action flick. People complained about how the plot is illogical because Dr.Strange is new to sorcery, but he was able to beat top sorcerers, but they explain it by saying he is smart with photographic memory. He read a lot of magic books. Others complain that they didn't show how why he got interested in sorcery, that was clear to me too; He switched from caring about a cure to caring that the whole world was at risk of annihilation. Morivation was there. Others complained the romance didn't make sense and came out of nowhere. What romance? It was an ex girlfriend feeling sorry for him. Then it seemed more like a friendship built on familiarity, no romance. I watched this movie the same day that I watched Disney's Moana and I thought the plots of these two movies were so similar. No one else mentioned this. Really, watch Dr.Strange and Moana on the same day and you will see what I mean. Somehow this movie inspired me to work harder for what I care about. The concept of the dimensions and the motivation for the evil villains were very creepy and unique to what I am used to watching.