Marvel’s Doctor Strange: Could it Have Been a Better Film? [REVIEW]

Dealing with Marvel movies requires, above all, rationality. To understand that there is a ruler, a measure, that guarantees a shallow depth of content.
Dr. Strange is a work that almost surpasses this threshold.
It is likely that this film was the densest production for most of its audience, used to the PG-13 type of plots, a pattern on all the Marvel Studio productions.
I know it sounds strange when the plot deepness is the subject debated in a superhero movie. But not fool yourself, they may have more relevant debates than you think, and I will deal with that in the lines below.
Directed by Scott Derrickson, the film is as long, but also dynamic. In 115 minutes of the exhibition, only a few moments caused tiredness.
However, the rush to present a raw character, develop his training and set a battle for him to become a hero may have been somewhat chaotic.
But all of this is understandable. It’s hard to insert a new character, with a totally different universe, into a well-established saga.
The magical powers do not interfere with the laws pre-established by previous films. There are visual rhymes between some of the universes visited by Dr. Strange and the microverse presented in Ant-Man (2015).
The negative parts are also common to almost every Marvel Cinematic Universe movie – the villain (or villains). Kaecilius starts the film as Darth Vader starts Star Wars – Episode IV. However, he loses strength and becomes only a madman who has gained too much power and must be restrained.
Speaking like that, it seems like I’m just critical of the movie, which is not true. Particularly, I think Dr. Strange may have his place on the podium of the best hero movies of all time.
We have a story that makes sense, excellent casting and construction of a beautiful visual identity. Everything is well thought out, well done and makes sense in mythology. There are no free effects, although nothing really novel has been presented regarding technological effects.
There are many points also related to the time and the ephemerality of life, especially in the transition between the second and third acts, which occurs in the death of the Ancient.
Finally, I leave the reflection: was this a movie with the potential to be much more than it was? How much do we lose when the Marvel ruler is used? How much is it worth having to put works that do not have the same value… at the same level?