Marvel made a horror movie and it is fabulous!
Film critic Jason Evans is on a mission to tell you everything you need to know about movies in less time than it takes to wave your hands and cast a spell (if you were magical). His reviews are exactly 100 words long (more than 99 but 101 would just be too long). Here is his 100-word review of Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
The Premise: When superhero sorcerer Dr. Strange (Benedict
Cumberbatch) rescues America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) from an attacking creature
from another dimension he realizes she is more than a normal teenaged girl.
Chavez reveals that she can jump between universes and she has encountered many
versions of Dr. Strange along the way. She’s terrified because someone is
trying to steal her power. Strange soon discovers that the person threatening
Chavez is one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse. The film also stars
Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff (the Scarlet Witch), Benedict Wong as Wong
(the Sorcerer Supreme), and Rachel McAdams as Strange’s love interest Dr.
Christine Palmer. The movie is written by Michael Waldron, who wrote the Marvel
TV series Loki, and is directed by horror and superhero movie veteran Sam Raimi
(the 2002-07 Spider Man films as well as The Evil Dead films).
The 100 Words: Though it starts out as a conventional Marvel
movie, the back half of this film is a full-on horror flick with jump scares,
terrifying imagery, and bloody gore. The movie flies along at breakneck speed
and never gets bogged down. The cast is strong and Olsen nearly steals the film with her emotional portrayal. In retrospect, the story is just ok (I wanted to understand why this Strange makes different decisions than other
versions of himself), but while in the theater I was transfixed by Raimi’s direction. Marvel, please keep hiring visionary directors and let them make whatever they want.
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