Review: "Doctor Strange"

Over the Thanksgiving break, I took some time to finally catch a matinee of Doctor Strange.

As origin stories for one of the weirder Marvel superheroes go, it didn't suck. Thoughts:

Pros:

• Casting Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange
• Cool effects
• Nice settings
• Avengers tower shot
• Captain America: Civil War shout-out
• Casting Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mordo
• Benedict Wong as... um... Wong. And making Wong a badass librarian.
• Entertaining fight scenes
• Good placement of humor
• Solid end-credits scenes

Cons:

• Casting Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One. Kinda white-washy.
• Yawn-inducing villains
• A bit too... Inception
• A little heavy on the psychedelic coloring at points
• Cumberbatch's American accent - it wasn't bad, but I found it a little jarring.

Overall, I enjoyed it. Solidly-entertaining.