The first Trivia item says it all: "Sam Raimi initially didn't want to direct any future superhero films, having lost faith in himself due to the critical and audience backlash he received from Spider-Man 3". It's amazing what a fat paycheck can get anyone to do, and in this case, it changed Raimi's mind. Too bad, for the audience.

Just like Spider-Man 3, this movie also is burdened with a lot of melodrama, and just like Spider-Man 3, there is an antagonist/villain who, at the end, needs just a little nudge to do the right thing, and bam, they are redeemed. May be Raimi attempts to show that there's good in all of us, but that premise is so naive, wrongly simplistic, and has been done to death since the inception of cinema, that he just ends up producing another snore fest. As an iconic movie character said "some men just want to watch the world burn", there isn't always a good side to them waiting to come out with the adequate amount of tears.

The movie is a little over two hours long, and by the time an hour had passed, I was so bored that I started checking social media on my phone (there were no one seating in the rows behind me). I didn't care about Dr. Strange or what happened to any of the other characters. There was no reason to anyway, the movie is a rinse and repeat of the same thing: Dr. Strange fleeing from the villain. When you've seen it once or twice, it just keeps repeating in different universes. The reason behind the villain's onslaught is just unbelievable, other than, of course, they needed to make a movie.

Skip it!