‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ is a Massive Disappointment
My Take
Alright, so I watched ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’, the 28th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe the previous day & it brings me no joy to tell you, it was terrible. It is difficult to write a review for a film like this one wherein even you aren’t sure about how you felt.
Hear me out & bear with me Marvel fanatics, I was thoroughly entertained & hooked but the plot is a breaking point. I am well aware that some people loved this film I don’t know why they did, but for me, this was a big letdown.
I had no hopes for this film, I was disappointed with the trailer. Like you just can’t deliberately show things that the audience has no clue of in lieu of an intellectual idea, it needs to make sense. The whole concept of a multiverse needed to be substantiated and supported with some bare minimum facts, but even if I give them the benefit of the doubt and omit the fatal flaws in the plot it still didn’t stand on its feet.
People loved Marvel because of its far-fetched realistic approach, but it’s turning more into fantasy now. While I was watching the film, I couldn’t believe any of it nor was I taking anything very seriously. I could see the end of it just 15 minutes into the film and that’s what happened.
They try to go around Doctor Strange’s love life, Wanda’s pain, the pull towards the darkness from the light but they ultimately suck at it, twisted and caught in the web they sew. I loved like…legit love WandaVision but I felt something off and missing.
There’s no sense to the plot, you know you need to establish some ground rules before you get into a genre of this kind to make it believable, you can’t just throw anything you think of, at us, randomly devoid of any logic or coherence.
Also, from another perspective, this film is one of its kind, and I appreciate the effort. Kudos to the filmmakers for this was a very brave attempt to induct and expand more on the concept of the multiverse, to try something like this, but they miserably fail.
Spoiler Alert
There’s this fighting sequence wherein they throw musical notes at each other, I mean that was good to watch. I was pretty pumped to see X-Men and Fantastic Four in the film but was equally saddened when Wanda kills them unrealistically, I mean we get she’s all powerful and stuff but you see there’s something called “reasonable”; I am not here to see a film where the hero can just fly around, kill people and nothing happens to them, it’s plain absurd!
One more thing that needs to be said is that you can’t just show such a powerless Sorcerer Supreme given the predecessor was one of the most iconic characters of Marvel.
The line ‘I love you in every universe’ did hit it home for me because it was no longer abstract. Also, technically it can’t be true, he has to hate her in some universes, I mean isn’t that the whole point? Maybe I’m lost. Bye.
Final Notes
Watch the film at the cheapest rate you can, I wouldn’t invest a lot of money into this but do watch it & see for yourself what a massive hoax Marvel has turned itself into. Cheers!
