The new Doctor Strange film has finally arrived, this time being directed by the incredible Sam Raimi who is known for the original Spiderman trilogy with Toby Maguire and also for the classic horror franchise Evil Dead which had 3 great movies and also a great hilarious horror-comedy sequel show called “Ash vs Evil Dead”.
The first thing ill say about the movie is that the synopsis is IMDb is the funniest thing you will read after watching this movie, it’s so wrong it sounds like a whole different movie, the synopsis on IMDb is: “Dr. Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong, and Wanda Maximoff”. Now I won’t tell you the actual synopsis of the film because they also hide most of it in the trailers, so just to avoid major spoilers I highly suggest you go and watch this movie as fast as possible cause oh my there is a lot of stuff in this movie that you would be really sad if you get spoiled.
Now my favorite aspect of the movie is the way it’s directed, the movie just screams Sam Raimi, it shows that for the most of it Marvel really gave him as much freedom as he wanted because this is by far the goriest, violent, and scary movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe BY FAR. There are a bunch of scenes that I just looked at and couldn’t stop saying in my head “holy shit that is just straight out of the Evil Dead franchise”, which was amazing.
Now other than just great directing, the acting here is also incredible, Benedict Cumberbatch is great as Doctor Strange and Benedict Wong is great is Wong, but without a doubt, the one who stole the show here is Elizabeth Olsen, MY GOD what an incredible actress she is, she gets to do so much and show so much of her acting skills here it’s amazing, she is truly a scene-stealer throughout the entire movie.
Another thing that just made this movie so much fun and exciting are the visuals. The movie has some of the best visual effects I have ever seen, both from the magic fights and the different spells but also when ***
sorry but that I can’t say because again, spoilers 😛
The movie is fantastic but it isn’t perfect, I won’t go into too much detail but there are some moments where Sam Raimi got to go all out in the script and it got a bit too cheesy, and there is a moment where the visual effects looked pretty bad (probably that moment was from the sudden reshoots), and there is a small part of the story that feels a bit like an afterthought, which was also probably a part of the reshoots, but overall these are just small complaints that I’m sure many people will really not care about.
My score for Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness is: 8.7/10
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