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Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilising a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

#MM RECOMMENDATION

Wow! One of the most unsettling patch of scenes, it almost feels as if the world has a mirror view. DOCTOR STRANGE is an incredible mindtrip. Its VFX alone makes Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ look like some kind of beta test. And this film is so much fun, it’s hilarious, it’s got some of the most complex, most elaborate action sequences I’ve seen all year, and I can’t stop geekin’ out about the cloak of levitation. This is Benedict Cumberbatch making his grand entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Directed by Scott Derrickson who helped provide the script, DOCTOR STRANGE is about a successful, talented, arrogant neurosurgeon, Doctor Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). Suddenly, a tragic car accident leaves Strange’s hands permanently damaged, which means he can no longer perform surgery. After trying western medicine, he hears of a man who was badly injured and then got miraculously healed, this leads Strange to the secrets of a hidden world of alternate dimensions. Under the teaching and guidance of the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) Strange unleashes metaphysical abilities and ultimately takes on the responsibility of protecting earth from mystical threats.

Created by Marvel’s legendary artist, Steve Ditko, the character Doctor Strange is a unique one because he’s not a product of some kind of technological armor, he’s not a nordic god nor a space alien, and he doesn’t get his powers from super serum nor gamma rays, and so kudos to Marvel Studios for taking a chance on this one of a kind character because it makes for an unbelievably fantastic origin story on screen that’s just different from the rest of the bunch that Marvel has introduced to us so far. And there’s just something refreshing about that.

What a great cast, they could not have picked a better lead star, Benedict Cumberbatch knocks it out of the park. Whenever Strange gets a bit cocky, you can see a little bit of Cumberbatch’s Sherlock attitude kicking in there. But Strange is more quick to sensibility whereas Sherlock would still have to put them all through his reasoning filters. And Cumberbatch’s sense of humour is absolutely sharp. There’s a ton of funny moments in this film but they never take away from the problem at hand or what Strange has to tackle at that very moment.

Mind tricks, imaginative trips and a lot of illusion makes it some trick of a movie. It really doesn’t get more of a movie magic than DOCTOR STRANGE. Best movie for adventure lovers.