The 'Good';
- Nice refreshing look at a
'new world' (even though it is on Earth) & it's culture(s). One of the core plot points/goals of the movie is actually building Wakanda up & explaining it to the audience & for the most part I think this was a success. In some ways it reminded me a lot of the initial Thor & GoTG movie.
- The Dora Milaje, in particular Lupita Nyong'o
(Nakia) & Danai Gurira
(Okoye) were very good & I actually feel they outshone even Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman himself in the movie.
- Michael B Jordan as Killmonger was very good, it's good to see he got a 2nd crack at a superhero movie to redeem the Fantastic Four fiasco & much like other actors who've got 2nd chances in the world of comic book movies ie Chris Evans & Ben Affleck, he redeemed himself with a very good performance. The one critique I would have, which was beyond his control, is that he just doesn't get anywhere near enough screen time, which is pretty much an MCU wide problem & it's one of the reasons why most of the actual villains in the MCU are for the most part weak IMO. However in this case he still made it work with what he got.
- As someone who's knowledge on Black Panther is fairly minimal as he was never a character I found particularly appealing, I feel the movie has done a good job of making me far more interested in the character & his surrounding
'world' to the point that I'll look into picking up some of the characters more famous titles next time I'm in the comic book store to try & bring my knowledge of the character up more.
The 'Bad';
- Bad pacing issues, first 1/2 of the movie goes really slowly & drags certain elements out for far too long. Also on the flipside there are other things that it don't get dragged out enough.
- Some of the CGI is poor & quite unnecessarily used at times particularly in some of the fight or action scenes in which practical effects, wires & stuntmen would have made it look more convincing.
- At least one other person touched upon it in one of their reviews in this thread, but they have crossed a line in terms of how much technologically advanced Wakanda is as a nation is & what Vibranium can actually do. The necklace suit(s) & the fatally wounded healing capabilities they have being 2 examples that spring out to mind as getting a little too technologically advanced . I chuckled at the necklace suit(s) because it reminded me a lot of Green Lantern & Venom in Spiderman 3, with his mask/helmet disappearing & reappearing even mid-battle to get the actor more actual face time.
- The movie was incredibly predictable & cliché at times. I saw a couple of the over the top good reviews after having seen the movie myself that stated along the lines of
"Black Panther breaks the mould & the normal cliché of the MCU/Comic Book Movie." It really, really doesn't. Like. At all.
6/10
