Cinecomics always offer a second chance, an escape route, a plan B. After a leap into the cosmic void there is always a plank, a spike of rock, a rope to cling to to overcome hostilities, bad thoughts, deceptions and prophecies. Doctor Stephen Strange one of those super heroes who, faded on paper, have taken on consistency in the cinema, also for the magnetism of his interpreter, Benedict Cumberbatch, capable of passing through torments of the cowboy of The power of the dog to the somersaults of the Marvel Universe ruled by producer Kevin Feige.
Strange a magician, a rather ambiguous cloaked mentalist, a sage in alternating current, a prisoner of his winged condition. So much so that he often asks others: Friend, are you happy? Difficult to be, considering what happens in the two hours and passes of the film, in a continuous hide and seek, here and there, between the dimensions of the Multiverse, facing assorted spirits and monsters, ambiguous reviving Avengersthe scarlet witch Wanda, a badass witch with an obvious lack of affection (Elizabeth Olsen), ex-girlfriend Christine about to get married (Rachel McAdams) and a young girl, America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), also ultra-gifted, able to travel between dimensions and open doors between time and space.
We finish it here, so as not to deprive the greedy spectator of surprises (which are many, and some give wow).
Cos maramaldeggiando, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ahe brings bricks to the cathedral of the cinema-videogame, where the characters are always at the beginning of an obstacle course to be overcome with dexterity and reasoning. Among the positive notes of the operation is Sam Raimi’s return to cinecomic after the trilogy of Spider-Man (between 2002 and 2007) and almost ten years since The great and mighty Oz (2013). The sense for the show of the director de Home (1981) e Darkman (1990) unchanged: the film becomes a real digital horrorhanging from an underlying ambiguity that underlines contemporary chaos and offers unthinkable developments to history. Raimi keeps banalities at bay, rules backfires, cameos, illustrious presences and he uses irony to dissolve the tension, proposing a metaphor of the generational conflict and even of the different identities that live within us in a mixture of Good and Evil, none alike. Never as this time is the motto valid: nothing as it seems.
Lights (blinding), shapes (aestheticizing), sounds and noises (clockwork) they become grammatical elements of the story. Settled the accounts with the adventure, Doctor Strange gives us the idea of a future built as a multiple ski slope where the winner will be whoever has the best wax. The evocative décor helps the filmone take off, forced into caverns, caverns and claustrophobic laboratories, but ready to wander in a horizon of inaccessible mountains or in the jam of urban skyscrapers. We can guess that the saga will return in the credits, with the latest sensational appearance.
DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS by Sam Raimi
(Usa, 2022, duration 126 ‘)
con Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Patrick Stewart
Rating: *** out of 5
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7 maggio 2022 | 09:56
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