This movie had its fair share of ups and downs for me. I thought the first 20 or so minutes of this movie were not very good at all. It was messy, oddly paced, and not very engaging. Then the film gets good or about 15 minutes, hosting some particularly creative fight scenes. This is how most of the first and second act were for me. The third act is the only one which i found solidly engaging the whole way through. As for the performances, Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen are the obvious standouts, bringing just what you'd expect from them. Benedict Wong also brings all the charm to the screen per usual. But Xochitl Gomez' performance was the one that stuck out to me in a bad way. She is not a particularly good actress in my opinion, which doesn't help this movie much as she is pretty much the main focus point. She hams up her important lines, and delivers the rest like she's reading a book to a group of first graders.

But it's time to go into the aspects of the movie itself. Obviously the CGI is mostly great as you would expect, and Sam Raimi's directing gives this film an interesting creative flare and sets it apart from other MCU movies. Some of the plot points and character motivations are force fed in ways that don't make sense, and there are portions of the movie that feel rushed. These aspects, along with Xotchitl Gomez' character, really drag the movie down in my opinion. This could've been way better, and there are hints of a great movie in here, but overall it didn't really deliver in the ways I thought it would, albeit, still being an enjoyable watch.