It's an exhilarating sequence that includes fisticuffs on the astral plane.īut when the fight is done and Christine has patched him up, Strange makes an insanely fast recovery. Strange quickly flees, stumbling through the Sanctum until he opens a portal to his old hospital, where his ex, Christine Palmer, treats him. It's during this fight that he suffers a life-threatening injury in the form of a (mystical) blade to the chest. There's fight scenes, plot twists, and an apocalyptic invasion, all of it peaking with a mind-bending foot chase through a New York that's like Inception on speed.īefore that big set piece, Doctor Strange has a brutal fight against Kaecilius and his disciples in New York's Sanctum Sanctorum. He started the day as a student, and was practically (but not quite) the Sorcerer Supreme before he went to bed.Īfter all the heavy drama of the movie's first half, things kick into high gear in hour two, with nearly non-stop excitement. It begs the question: How far along was he in his training at this point? The fact that mere seconds stretch to minutes while astrally projected means Strange studying as his body slept could expand his studies - but had no other student thought of it? Whether he was close to the end of his Kamar-Taj studies or not, we'll never know.īut if the second half of the film takes place over the course of a single day and night, that was quite a hike up the totem pole.
Smack in the middle of all this, impressed by his battle against Kaecilius, the Ancient One suddenly names Stephen a Master. During this sequence of scenes, he's confronted by Mordo and Wong, the London Sanctum is destroyed, Strange is blown into the New York Sanctum, he explores it and fights Kaecilius there, and on it goes right up through to the climax in Hong Kong. Starting with the scene where Strange uses the Eye of Agamotto to turn back time and read the stolen pages from the Book of Cagliostro, the rest of the movie appears to take place continuously, without any big jumps in time. Then the movie shifts into a different mode. The first half of the film fast-forwards through several months of time from the car accident, Strange's recovery, multiple attempts to regain the use of his hands, to finally his training at Kamar-Taj.
But the path it takes to get there is full of fits and starts. We also know it ends shortly before next year's Thor: Ragnarok. We know it starts during the events of Captain America: Civil War, because War Machine's spinal injury was one of the cases offered to Strange while he was driving his Lamborghini before it crashed.
Doctor Strange uses several "time jumps" in its storytelling.
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