Doctor Strange (2016)
Country: US
Technical: col/1.78:1 115m
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong
Synopsis:
A gifted but arrogant surgeon loses the use of his hands in a car accident and travels to Nepal in search of spiritual healing when conventional medicine fails. Little does he know that he is to be locked into a battle for planetary survival when a former supplicant returns to do mischief and steal pages from a forbidden book.
Review:
The Marvel franchise taps into the iconography of films such as The Matrix and Inception in this psychedelic space/time-warp narrative. Cumberbatch is perfectly cast as the know-it-all prodigy with feet of clay who can nevertheless bypass years of training in the mystic arts and teach himself Sanskrit. However, it is Swinton who impresses just as much, investing what might have been a routine Yoda turn into a three-dimensional portrayal of human but nearly godlike wisdom. Mikkelsen's villain is resolutely 2-D, on the other hand. In sum, one of the weightier of the series, whose kaleidoscopic visuals nevertheless grow wearing on the eye.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.78:1 115m
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong
Synopsis:
A gifted but arrogant surgeon loses the use of his hands in a car accident and travels to Nepal in search of spiritual healing when conventional medicine fails. Little does he know that he is to be locked into a battle for planetary survival when a former supplicant returns to do mischief and steal pages from a forbidden book.
Review:
The Marvel franchise taps into the iconography of films such as The Matrix and Inception in this psychedelic space/time-warp narrative. Cumberbatch is perfectly cast as the know-it-all prodigy with feet of clay who can nevertheless bypass years of training in the mystic arts and teach himself Sanskrit. However, it is Swinton who impresses just as much, investing what might have been a routine Yoda turn into a three-dimensional portrayal of human but nearly godlike wisdom. Mikkelsen's villain is resolutely 2-D, on the other hand. In sum, one of the weightier of the series, whose kaleidoscopic visuals nevertheless grow wearing on the eye.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.78:1 115m
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong
Synopsis:
A gifted but arrogant surgeon loses the use of his hands in a car accident and travels to Nepal in search of spiritual healing when conventional medicine fails. Little does he know that he is to be locked into a battle for planetary survival when a former supplicant returns to do mischief and steal pages from a forbidden book.
Review:
The Marvel franchise taps into the iconography of films such as The Matrix and Inception in this psychedelic space/time-warp narrative. Cumberbatch is perfectly cast as the know-it-all prodigy with feet of clay who can nevertheless bypass years of training in the mystic arts and teach himself Sanskrit. However, it is Swinton who impresses just as much, investing what might have been a routine Yoda turn into a three-dimensional portrayal of human but nearly godlike wisdom. Mikkelsen's villain is resolutely 2-D, on the other hand. In sum, one of the weightier of the series, whose kaleidoscopic visuals nevertheless grow wearing on the eye.