Review of Doctor Strange (2016) by Random V — 15 Jan 2018

I was utterly devastated to see that Lamborghini drop off the cliff and roll to its destruction taking the hands of a talented surgeon with it. Strange's desperate drive to heal his hands while struggling with his sense of self as either a healer or a superstar doctor kept the plot on the road and me interested in his journey.

Then he meets Tilda Swinton with a shaved head, and the story line becomes a mystical head game of understanding and wills, while emphasizing the duality of good intentions like an unspoken yang, where one must embrace darkness to control darkness.

And then, in Mads Mikkelsen's gross misunderstanding of a cosmic deity's influence, he steals dark secrets of spacetime. Then, in conducting mystical guerilla-style studying techniques, Strange stumbles across a universal deus ex machina (which, thankfully isn't also a MacGuffin) that shifts time, which he uses brilliantly to conclude his epic quest to his new understanding of the universe and his place in it.

And if that isn't enough, a former pupil of the Ancient One twists into an unspoken Yin at the end of the movie with promises of more to come in the Strange universe. And Wang. Meanwhile, in the Sanctum Sanctorum, Strange's sheer intelligence drives his confidence to take a more proactive mystical stance on entities and deities traveling on Earth.

And also ... don't get up, I'll get you a beer.