Doctor Strange - Movie Review

This is a movie about an egoistic arrogant neurosurgeon with a God complex who ends in an accident destroying his life and his self-perception, making him lose everything he have even the one he love. Already at this point we have a plot that have sold many movies and is not going out of style any time soon. It is a classic story about a person learning what is truly important in life. Then we mix it up with the magic of Marvel, taking the whole movie to the next level.
Doctor Strange is a cinematic beauty that is showing a possible idea of what it would look and feel like if the brain and soul could break through to the fourth and fifth dimension. The cinematic team have had a massive creative challenge with creating all these dimensional and inter-dimensional scenes, that looks like what LSD always gets described as. The movie takes this classic plot, puts it into the world of the Avengers and the rest of Marvel, and twist it through magic and mind bending animations.
Like all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, Doctor Strange deviates from the original story on a few points. For example in the original story, Mordo is plotting against the Ancient One, which leads to Stephen Strange pledging himself as the Ancient One's disciple and making the two enemies, where as in this movie Mordo turns against Doctor Strange and the sorceress after the Ancient One is dead. Plus in any cartoon series where Doctor Strange appears, be it Spiderman or Agents of Smash or even in Avengers, he always seems a bit more strange than in this movie. But it is all minor changes.

I was at some points a bit bored by the whole mindtrip experience and think they may have taken it just a bit too far. Plus I think some of the spells where boring, bending the real world is cool enough but making weapons is a bit boring, where is all the powerful elemental spells or something. Doctor Strange also normally call on the power of the entities he needs and he was kind of silent every time he cast a spell.
So when all that is said, it is a beautiful movie. It fits into the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe and the style is working. It is well made, there are great actors, Benedict Cumberbatch is perfect for Doctor Strange. As I am a Dane it is an unwritten law that I must mention how well Mads Mikkelsen did as the bad guy Kaecilius. I will give this movie 4.5 stars out of 5, that is the best I can do.