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• Fantasy
• Adventure

• 2016
• Scott Derrickson
• 110 mins
• 12

Summary

Fantasy adventure based on the Marvel comic book, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tilda Swinton. A brilliant surgeon's career is ruined by a car crash and in desperation he searches for a powerful Asian mystic who can offer him a cure for his damaged hands. Instead, he is trained in how to harness magical forces so that one day, he could become the world's Sorcerer Supreme.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Top-notch, innovative and visually dazzling fantasy in a Marvel zone all its own, director Scott Derrickson opens up the comic-book cosmos with a witty, trippy origin story freak-out. Benedict Cumberbatch owns the title role of the arrogant neurosurgeon who after losing the use of his hands in a car crash heads to Kathmandu to seek a cure. There he trains with ancient oracle Tilda Swinton to develop his mystical and magical powers and become Earth's Sorcerer Supreme ready to stop evil disciple Mads Mikkelsen in his quest for eternal life. An impeccable cast mine the supernatural drama for emotional nuance while Derrickson has an assured touch with the absorbing narrative. But it's the extraordinarily eye-popping special effects that take this thrilling multiversal adventure to the next level of excitement, with mind-bending, cityscape-folding, reverse-timing and reality-alternating voyages through the Mirror, Astral and Dark Dimensions.

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7.5/10

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• Sky Store

Credits

Cast

rolenameDoctor Stephen StrangeBenedict CumberbatchMordoChiwetel EjioforThe Ancient OneTilda SwintonKaeciliusMads MikkelsenChristine PalmerRachel McAdamsWongBenedict WongDr Nicodemus WestMichael StuhlbargJonathan PangbornBenjamin BrattLucianScott AdkinsHamirTopo WresniwiroDaniel DrummMark Anthony BrightonBus passengerStan LeeThorChris Hemsworth

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rolenameDirectorScott Derrickson

Details

Theatrical distributor

Disney

Released on

2016-10-25

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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