Marvel's Doctor Strange: 8 Reasons You Should Be Excited
2. The Creative Action Sequences
Action in superhero movies can often devolve into a big, frenetic blur after a while, because there's only so much you can do without breaking the rules of that particular reality. The Avengers may look fantastical and awe-inspiring but it's still set on Earth, with Earth's gravity, laws and physics, and this restricts the action to the limits of the environment.
But what if you could remove these shackles and construct set-pieces in a world without as many strict rules? Thankfully, Doctor Strange can do just that, and based on the trailer we're going to be getting fights and set-pieces the likes of which we haven't seen since Inception and The Matrix - both movies that were praised for their innovative action sequences.
Yes, it's cool to watch Iron Man blast things with his robo-hands, but wouldn't it be cooler to watch someone run up the side of a building and throw a few punches while the entire city is folding, bending and twisting around them? Throw portals into the mix and we could get people fighting in a desert, then a city, then high in the mountains, then in the sewers, or... anywhere.
The reality in which Doctor Strange is set has much more freedom than anything else in the MCU, which should mean that the spectacle won't feel hollow and uninspired like it often does in so many other movies of this kind.