Its ability to feature wizards and sorcery and yet remind us of everything from Inception to The Matrix speaks of the perfect vision that horror director Scott Derrickson - a great fan of the source material - has adopted here, and one which seamlessly integrates into the MCU.ĭoctor Strange may be thinly plotted and may seek to distract you with sound and fury (and a dash of Guardians of the Galaxystyle humour), but it does so with such verve and passion that it's impossible not be swept up by it. The movie eschews the more classical Harry Potter form of spell-casting, in favour of the kind of approach Tony Stark would take, if he were a wizardĪt once marrying the high-tech savvy of the Avengers' universe with the magical imagery of Strange's comic-come-to-life, the movie eschews the more classical Harry Potter form of spell-casting, in favour of the kind of approach Tony Stark would take, if he were a wizard. Using modern effects in simply the best possible way, the movie injects you into an unfathomable world of multiple realities and multiple dimensions, blasting your senses with the kind of visual opulence that makes Tarsem Singh's visions feel positively restrained.
Right from its Inception-on-acid opening sequence, Strange makes you giddy as a schoolkid all over again, throwing so many wondrous Escher-esque realities at you that your mind will be barely able to keep up. That's what Doctor Strange meant for the Marvel Cinematic Universe back when it was released in 2016, and in a post- Endgame universe, this gift seems more relevant than ever. It'd be a little like Abrams' Star Trek, enabling multiple actors to play the same role without devaluing the franchise or ruining the timeline. Parallel universes, alien dimensions, multiverses, alternate Earths - all of a sudden the beloved characters played by Downey Jr, Hemsworth, Evans and even Ruffalo don't ever have to be 'rebooted' from scratch - we could just investigate their lives in another world, where they could be played by different, even younger actors, and given a new story which hints at what happened before (well, not technically, before, more at the same time).
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