Meanwhile - and there’s always a meanwhile - the Ancient One’s former protégé Kaecilius ( Mads Mikkelsen) has stolen some pages from one of her sacred texts and plans to create a passage that will bring some very dark forces to the planet. (This sequence alone justifies seeing the film in 3D.) He sets about developing his powers under her tutelage she’s aided by her right-hand man Mordo ( Chiwetel Ejiofor) and stone-faced librarian Wong ( Benedict Wong, “Marco Polo”). There he meets the Ancient One ( Tilda Swinton), a Celtic master of the mystic arts who quickly shows Strange that there is more in the multiverse than is dreamt of in his philosophy his initial skepticism disappears after she opens his third eye and sends him careening through dimension after dimension. See Photos: 'Doctor Strange': See Benedict Cumberbatch Become the Sorcerer Supreme in New Photos Stephen Strange, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon who only plies his craft in ways that will win him fame and fortune.Ī car accident leads to massive nerve damage to his hands, and after Western medicine provides no solutions, he follows a tip from a no-longer-paralyzed man ( Benjamin Bratt) to a place called Kamar-Taj in the Nepalese city of Kathmandu. True, “Doctor Strange” is an origin story, and occasionally hemmed in by the genre’s narrative requirements, but it’s smart enough to bring in great British actors to make the predictable paces and life lessons feel fresh and fascinating. In other words, the brain trust at Marvel Studios wisely continues trying to keep audiences on their toes by upending what viewers might be thinking of as business as usual.Īlso Read: 'Doctor Strange' Early Reviews Are In: 'Stunning,' 'Unique,' 'Unlike Anything Marvel's Done' And yes, our hero travels beyond the farthest reaches of the universe, but he encounters intergalactic psychedelia that calls to mind both “2001” and the acclaimed Nick Fury stories drawn by Jim Steranko for Marvel Comics’ short-lived “Pop Art Productions” imprint. Escher and not a colorblind four-year-old. Yes, there are big battles in city streets, but they appear to have been designed by M.C. In a year where bloated, empty spectacles have induced a crushing level of CG fatigue - Now Showing: “Alice Through the Warcraft Suicide Apocalypse Justice” - this funny, freaky adventure reminds us of how effective VFX can be when they’ve got some imagination behind them. “Doctor Strange,” the latest movie in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, casts a few impressive spells of its own, not the least of which is the redemption of the visual-effects extravaganza. He was cornball enough to pepper his speech with oaths like “By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggath!” but you definitely would not want to find yourself on the business end of one of his powerful spells. Doctor Strange has always operated in the trippier corners of Marvel Comics while other superheroes were foiling bank robbers or repelling interplanetary conquerors, the good doctor was slipping between dimensions, battling mystical forces up to and including Eternity itself.
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