Marvel Studios at this point is a well-oiled machine. Doctor Strange’s script is really familiar to anyone who's ever seen a Marvel movie Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange. Here’s why that’s okay, and why you should definitely see it anyway. If there is justice in the world, Doctor Strange will win an Oscar for its visual effects.īut even though the film is Marvel’s crowning aesthetic triumph, even though all four of its stars - Swinton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Rachel McAdams - have their game faces on and act their hearts out, even though it’s got great humor and spirit, Doctor Strange isn’t close to being Marvel’s best movie. And Doctor Strange is, without a doubt, the best Marvel movie in history when it comes to looks - a movie whose ambition and creativity is matched by its execution. It’s like watching reality tear itself apart.īy the time you catch your breath, a realization dawns: That opening sequence is the most stunning seven minutes of footage Marvel has ever created. The basic physics concepts you’re used to no longer work in the way you’ve been taught. Gravity flips and shifts with each camera angle as the goons look like inebriated hamsters on a wheel. An adjacent edifice buckles over and starts spinning, threatening to smash down on various characters like a maniacal rolling pin. The buildings gnarl and twist like segments of a Rubik’s Cube.
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