Doctor Strange - Challenge for Benedict Cumberbatch's Talent ?
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dr. Stephen Strange, a brilliant surgeon whose hands are damaged beyond any medical repair following a car accident. Determined to cure himself, he travels to Nepal to seek out the less conventional healing powers of the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), a monk-like character who harnesses great magic. Strange is taught how to tap into this sorcery (almost like the Force in Star Wars) and is enlisted by the Ancient One in her efforts to thwart Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen), a former student gone bad. Along for the ride are Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), another, more dutiful, student of the Ancient One, and Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams), a doctor at the hospital Strange used to work at and his former flame. Donning a slightly strange American accent, Cumberbatch is nevertheless an assured casting as Stephen Strange, never quite as smarmy as his Sherlock Holmes but exuding just enough egotism that he can share an inevitable chest-pounding confrontation with Robert Do
