Doctor Strange Review

Rating: 8/10 (26 November 2016)

Doctor Stranger is the newest hero featured on the MCU. A hero quite out of the mainstream, a bit like Guardians of the Galaxy, to soften this lack of knowledge of the hero by the general public, Benedict Cumberbatch's choice to play the hero was clever, bringing a face known by the audience to not so popular character out of the comics. Doctor Strange closely resembles the first Iron Man (2008) and follows a formula that is present in most MCU films.
This formula has its positives and negatives, because it is a film with a stratospheric budget, to attract more public, whether they're men or women, children or adults, the film does not risk with a complex story. Not that the formula is bad, Doctor Strange is a good movie with an exciting and enjoyable story, the end has a very clever and different approach from others Marvel movies and it's not a surprise that it has already earned more than $ 500 million so far. The problem is that this focus on pleasing as many people as possible limits the process of creating the script and what it could exploit to not only create a fun movie for the whole family. Even more so, because the character, Stephen Strange, is an interesting and mystical character who travels through other dimensions, the possibilities were innumerable.
The look of the film is fantastic, the scenes in other dimensions and those that change the reality are beautiful and Doctor Strange is one of the few films that 3D technology brings a differential, especially in these scenes. One problem I have is one scene that graphical computing fails a lot, it's very noticeable the use of the visual effects and as the scene differs a lot to the rest, it makes the error jump to the eyes. Humor is another positive aspect, the jokes are good, they have a good timing and aren't very childish.
Benedict Cumberbatch is perfect in the role, he almost instantly acquires the sympathy of the public, besides of being able to convey the emotions that the character is going through with realism. However, there is no denying the similarity between the story of Stephen Strange and Tony Stark's story in the first Iron Man. Tilda Hilton as "The Ancient One" and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mordo have a lead role in the plot and are great, especially Hilton with all the mystery of her character in relation to her past. Christine Palmer is played by Rachel McAdams, the choice to not build a cheesy and very sentimental relationship between her and Strange was right, because it would create a certain blurring in the plot and choosing to develop a realistic relationship, brought a realism to the film. The villain, Kaecilius, played by Mads Mikkelsen, suffers from what many of the villains in the Marvel movies suffer, lack of depth and character development, which makes the villain disposable and his actions not so shocking. The work of the actor was very good, and not surprising, Mikkelsen is recognized by several roles as in the Hannibal series and in the Danish film "Jagten", however, the film has no desire to complex the character.