Michael Thomas

Typical cop murder mystery horror-lite movie. The trailer piqued your interest in all the right ways and the movie did not deliver. Every "scary" things in the movie happens in the trailer, you can't just make sense of the trailer without the story/plot context. You wait the while movie just to see how the fairly predictable twist will actually unfold only to realize that it's extremely generic and pretty disappointing. All the characters have somewhat "real-world" decision making skills, but then in the last act it comes full circle as you remember you're watching a horror movie and that people have to make stupid decisions to drive the plot forward, and die, without having too much effort put into setting up the characters' demisse.

Definitely not a movie for Dr. Strange fans, or really Marvel or MCU fans at that. Not really sure who this was for if not Sam Raimi himself. Movie relies on shock and awe rather than actually story telling. When you look at it like a cheesey Raimi horror movie rather than an MCU movie that shock and awe is less shock and more annoyingly predictable though. There's extra gore just because and the action sequences are definitely some of the weakest in the MCU. The movie isn't even about Dr. Strange, he just gets pulled along for the ride. Without going on a rant that throws in spoilers left and right I will surmise that this movie is disappointing and distasteful at best. It's literally the only marvel movie (to include captain marvel) that I thought is so bad that I had to leave a review to warn other people away from it.