Black Panther – Movie Review
Is “Black Panther” still as good as everyone made
it out to be? Let’s find out in the review!
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Today on our weekly MCU reviews, we will discuss
the 16th MCU film chronologically with “Black
Panther.” “Black Panther” is directed by Ryan
Coogler, featuring an ensemble cast including
Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa.
This film was a massive phenomenon,
being one of the highest-grossing MCU films
ever, being the forty-fifth highest-grossing
movie worldwide when adjusted for inflation.
It is also the first superhero film to receive
a Best Picture nomination and the first MCU
film to win an Academy Award, winning 3 awards
and being nominated for seven.
Three years later, I get the chance
to review this movie, and I have
to say. It’s a great movie!
Let’s dive right into this review, starting
with the acting. Chadwick Boseman is marvelous
in the film playing T’Challa/Black Panther, who
sadly passed away last year, which did make this
experience sadder, but more
that he was going through to make this role work
and be the best he could be. Michael B. Jordan
gave an equally outstanding performance playing
the villain of Killmonger. Killmonger is easily
my top 5 favorite MCU villains so far. Letitia
Wright, who plays Shuri, is also great, along with
Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluyya, Andy
Serkis, and Winston Duke. Easily the best cast
for an MCU film besides the Avengers films.
The story is also fantastic in this one, with
not feeling like a traditional massive big-budget
superhero movie. A significant positive is that
since we already had Black Panther set up in
“Captain: Civil War,” the film has the room to be
on its own without feeling like it has to connect
to all the other films in the series.
The writing is also excellent,
being one of my favorites because it doesn’t
rely too heavily on the jokes as it is more
of a serious film that has some great exchanging
dialogue between characters that feel deeper than
a surface-level superhero film. From every angle
with T’Challa and Killmonger’s ideologies, you
definitely see that doctrines are valid but need
to be fleshed out and adequately used together,
which is the whole film’s struggle.
Ryan Coogler directs the film and does a
fantastic job. He clearly understands how to
make so many excellent well put together shots,
with my favorite one in the middle of the film
involving Killmonger, which made the cinephile
in me get all giddy with excitement.
Coogler is also well known for creating
fantastic shots in the dramatic sequences, his
strong suit, and it doesn’t fail here.
The technical aspects of the film are
lovely with fantastic production design.
Just seeing how beautiful and massive this
world of Wakanda is just memorizing. It did
win Best Production Design at the Academy
Awards, which is rightfully deserved.
The costume design is also marvelous. Seeing
all the different tribes of Wakanda with their
own unique look to their culture in their
costumes, makeup and weapons were so cool,
adding to the realism this film creates.
The score is also fantastic, being composed by
Ludwig Göransson. He has scored
every movie of Ryan Coogler’s so far,
being one of my new favorite upcoming composers.
The score is so important and perfect in the film,
really adding to the world of Wakanda with adding
African style of music with Ludwig actually going
to different parts of Africa to understand
their music. There is also a mix of hip-hop
trap beats and African sounds that work
perfectly in a thematic sense that add so much
to the movie as it plays throughout.
My favorite artist Kendrick Lamar did the
soundtrack along with other artists, and it was a
hit. It wasn’t used very appropriately throughout,
adding some great songs to push the action’s
adrenaline to new heights. “All the Stars”
by Kendrick and SZA was nominated for the best
original song that I think was deserved.
The film does have its fair share of negatives,
starting with the humor. I found all the jokes
to fall flat on its face that felt very
outdated with references that have been
outdated since the film was released.
I think everyone can agree on the last one,
even if you love this movie, is the visual
effects. They are really awful, considering this
is a 200 million dollar Marvel movie. But so much
of it feels unfinished and unpolished. It makes
the film look like a PS2 video game at times,
especially during the horrific third act. This
also affects the action scenes where the Black
Panther looks empty when he jumps in the air to
fight the bad guys looking incredibly fake.
Overall, this is a great superhero film with
African and African American representation
in this scale’s superhero film.
It is an excellent movie with its
writing, performances, story, music, and
being entertaining. This is a movie everyone needs
to check out at some point in their life.
I am giving “Black Panther”
an eight out of ten.
So have you seen “Black Panther” and if you have,
what do you think of the film 3 years later? Let
me know down below in the comment section.
As always, I will see you all in the next video!
