I feel like the only thing that kept me from falling asleep in this movie was Benedict Cumberbatch's presence. Because the story line was EXTREMELY formulaic and boring. The whole - "race to stop the DARKNESS from getting through the portal in the sky" is starting to make me feel sick, and everything leading up to that point was essentially a really long training montage with Dr Strange becoming a professional magician by fighting random goons.

The fight scenes themselves were not very good even with all the crazy special effects. For people who have the ability to use magic, they do A LOT of running, and only seem to use their magic when they want to fuck up the environment (for no reason) or to create sharp objects to stab people with. When it became apparent that the environmental effects where just for show, it lost a lot of its appeal. movies like Harry Potter, Warcraft and Kingsglaive do a much better job of using the power of magic to FIGHT and manipulate the environment in a USEFUL way.

Another thing that got on my nerves was the corny humour. Its becoming more obvious to me why Marvel is criticized for having bad villains. And its because they don't RESEPCT their villains. Their villains are constantly exploited and reduced to nothing but laughing stocks at the end of their reign, which feels way too cartoony and ruins the villain's credibility as a VILLAIN. DC NEVER does this, which is why people automatically take their villains more seriously even if their villains are more or less the same as Marvel's.

Aside from a villain being marvel-fied, there was also a lot of unnecessary slapstick humour shoved into serious fight scenes, which weren't funny at all and only made me cringe in confusion. Humour during fight scenes are done well in The Avengers, but here it was just awkward. This is probably the most disappointing Marvel movie i've seen.