Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20161023204704/@comment-3347453-20161024082817

The reason that the villains are generally considered to be underwhelming is that the MCU movies tend to put the majority of the focus on the heroes and the villains end up becoming quite generic and one-dimensional. It is for that reason that people tend to like find the TV villains a lot more interesting than the movie villains, because they are given more time to develop and showcase the multiple layers of their character.

Hell, it's not impossible to create complex and interesting villains in a two hour blockbuster movie. The likes of Magneto from the X-Men movies and Koba from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes are more popular than a lot of the MCU villains because as much of the focus of those movies is dedicated to them as to the heroes and it allows the audience to sympathise with them even if they don't agree with their viewpoint.

By the way, I have watched two reviews of Doctor Strange so far (one from Collider and one from Screen Junkies News) and while the reviewers in both videos really enjoyed the movie and highly recommend, a criticism in both reviews was that while Mads Mikkelsen brings the same compelling presence that he brings to all of his roles, Kaecilius doesn't really stand out from a lot of the other MCU villains.