Just Watched BLACK PANTHER WAKANDA FOREVER! Instant Reaction & Honest Thoughts Review!
foreign what is going on there citizens of the reject Nation Greg here joined by John how are you I’m I’m in a days we just got out of watching black panther wakanda forever leave a like don’t forget to do that now we’re shooting this in Burbank we got our friend Aaron holding the camera burbank’s really serious about around here at any moment we could be tackled by security I know what are you doing here stop filming pay us for this time now in case you don’t know anything about this film there’s gonna be no spoilers
here and this movie takes place after the passive t’challa Chadwick Boseman as you see in the trailers there’s people who are seeing this as a moment of vulnerability for wakanda they’re trying to take vibranium this movie’s two hours and 40 something minutes there’s a lot of plot even involving why Neymar and them are fighting that is just not revealed in the trailers I know some people don’t care if they talk about it but because the marketing he didn’t put it out there I don’t want to put it out there but know this the movie’s like
a really long film and I thought every second every minute of it was so Justified I loved this movie so much when I saw the trailers I
felt like such a necessary experience for everyone involved with this movie feels so purposeful it’s like an epic drama is how I would describe it you know before we go into like Namor Sheree Angela Bassett my God ramonda yeah John what’d you think no I I’m similarly dazed because it is such a cathartic experience and because it does intermingle so much with actual life yeah there are crazy high concept things happening on screen and yet it still feels completely personal the entire time and every action feels motivated by the grief and vulnerability that everybody on
screen is feeling for different reasons and you know coming out of the previous movie it still maintains all of that geopolitical Intrigue because obviously in the place we rejoin wakanda they are in a globally vulnerable state not just an emotionally vulnerable state but you get this interesting mixture where so much of the action literally even the fighting that happens on screen does feel like it is coming from the same place as a lot of the dramatic scenes it is you know the most powerful and the most meaningful and the most impactful MCU movie probably in
rousing as hell it is yeah yeah yeah but not in the way of like how an end game is rousing yeah it’s not on your left yeah but it is like it has a life of firming quality just as much as it is about grieving the loss of somebody and there are some really beautiful cultural motifs that they use to drive that home that really sing beyond all the other stuff that you’re expecting that is there too like it’s still thrilling and it’s still fun and it’s still endearing in ways but yeah there is a
Paul that they don’t turn away from that is cast over the entire proceedings and even characters who aren’t going through what the wakandans are going through have similarly vital motivations and griefs of their own to rectify between everyone in wakanda to everyone in telecon and in between there’s so much life and culture and Beauty on display that it’s weird so many people I think would want to imagine this movie any other way if it meant Chadwick could be here and I certainly would probably trade for that reality but at the same time the on the
timeline we live on this does feel like a unique snapshot of a moment that also gets to be all the MCU stuff you want it to be too and I think that’s really special there are some really just powerful performances in here it’s the the best I think out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe I’ll be honest like I was well I was looking forward to shuri but I wasn’t exactly walking into this film going can’t wait to see what Leticia Wright does for some reason I just wasn’t in that mindset what I noticed was that
there are times where when she had scenes where she was like displaying Joy or happiness I would start to tear up or cry because her portrayal here carries this this ever growing pain throughout the entire film that’s coming out in all kinds of ways of aggression and anger and drive it would just break my heart whenever I would see her happy you know it’s it’s that kind of it’s just it’s getting me right now it would just mess me up because you could see how palpable and how much it just resonates throughout the entire film
because that’s what this film’s so much about is everyone’s struggling emotional only right now and we’re just trying to keep moving and everyone’s threatening us and the only way we can stay together through such a tumultuous time is by Banning together so that phrase like calling this wakanda forever I felt that way more than the first black panther way more than whatever it’s been said I felt that like yeah wakanda forever you just feel that phrase that Mantra but it’s such a personal fill like it’s so personal it’s two hours and 40 minutes for a
reason it is a slow-moving film that will have action scenes that are just so intense like this is Cinema all right this is James Cameron Cameron this is a great film there are these action scenes in here where the intensity it’s suspenseful it’s engaging and you’re watching characters even on the side of Neymar they’re not Atlantis yeah they call them a different thing I forget how you adapt telecon into its people’s name but yeah even with them it’s everyone’s just trying to do their best and they they have these core themes about family and about
vengeance and about how to cope and it’s just like that in this giant massive expensive ass film at the same time Namor he was so threatening and he’s easily one of the best Marvel villains I was halfway through watching him monologue at one scene and then I got pulled out for a split second going holy this guy’s incredible I know because I haven’t even thought about like how great he’s doing because he’s so he just feels like this character yeah he’s just he just is this person you get entirely where he’s coming from the flying
the action scenes with him are awesome and as much as you get where he’s coming from he also pisses you off so much at times yeah it’s a really great dichotomy they draw because he is completely understandable and yet he is your antagonist for various reasons and it’s really effectively done it does not succumb to these stereotype of like oh you’re just kind of going up against yourself like it definitely avoids that and it gives you somebody with a clear motive a clear purpose that you can again continuing that line from what we got with
killmonger it’s like you you understand where this guy’s coming from but more so even than killmonger I would argue Angela Bassett I believe deserves an Oscar nomination for this I don’t think I’ve said that about an MCU performance the strength and Poise and the amount of command she has on the screen green you’ve seen Angela Bassett do an intense performance but there is so much more percolating underneath it yeah like I would absolutely agree I’m like please nominate her like I notice you keep saying pain doesn’t sound like a fun movie but it’s like a
necessary pain it’s like you’re grieving through with these characters you’re doing all this necessary World building and you’re exploring talocon like there’s so much I’m like wow the trailers didn’t show you so much there’s so much Beauty on display deny Guerrera as a koye just you know like man you miss you missed the Charlie you missed Chadwick with Ryan coogler and company gave with their performers here this is the performance of them that I’m going to remember every one of them first black panther I’m like I really like them but of course Chadwick and Michael
B Jordan those are the ones you think of it’s a true Ensemble peace masterful performances and yeah it is I’m sorry for talking so much and Baku Winston Duke total blast to kick it with seen stealer Riri Williams was the quality of this film I was concerned about this film obviously is looked at as something so personal I felt are we gonna get distracted by them trying to set up Iron Man she’s a very important character in this film and she fits yeah perfectly yeah it is not just hey look how far ironhearted it is
not that she felt like such a real person this friendship that she forms with shuri by the time you know the movie was ending I was like oh no I want to still see them hang out I don’t wanna I wanna still see them together and it makes you hope that shuri will appear somewhere in Iron Heart to just continue that Rapport they have everything to me comes back to Leticia Wright for this film whatever personal opinions you have about Leticia right everything comes back to me about like it circles around her she was perfect
absolutely mesmerizing oh my God yes no yeah like revelatory and and the way especially she is used in the movie without saying much is interesting and does come with very much catharsis and a lot of its own tough emotion that is unique it’s like you have everyone sharing you know a certain amount of grief obviously but I feel like at the center of the story you have shuri but you also have Nakia in a way that you know isn’t really a part of what people are talking about or what’s being pitched to you but she
is one of the brightest parts of the movie I feel like when you see the trailer you know what you’re hearing a lot about is they’ve lost their leader and now it falls on the remaining people in wakanda to carry on the Legacy and to take a stand and and show their strengths still so what they did with this film was they went okay let’s not try to find a new lead let’s instead really hone in on our supporting players from the last movie and make them the leads as tragic as it is as beautiful
as a tribute as this film is like you feel Chadwick boseman’s missing presence and presence throughout you feel his spirit imbued in everything like when you say the missing presence it’s not like the movie’s not good because this would have been good yeah that’s something we’re saying you feel the longing that weight of the loss of someone but weirdly I felt like they came out with a film that was better than the first one personally for me I feel like this is a better film The action’s really great and imaginative and dazzling yeah this is
like the wakanda version of the winter soldier action in some ways you know a little bit of that Aquaman wonder I think they made the underwater stuff look better than Aquaman it felt real more real versus not trying to make this like a Marvel vs DC comparison it just felt actually real the music by all oh this is some of the absolute this is absolutely a cinematic score yeah it feels spiritual throughout and it takes those motifs from the previous movie but it builds on them in really wonderful ways it uses vocalizations and two it
crosses cultural boundaries because you are dealing with ancient uh I think they they name check my commands yeah it’s like you know you have so much hang in there beyond the the music of wakanda that just makes it feel so much more rich and alive and all the flourishes like you can really feel the elegant quality of the tones that they pull the sound design is amazing the makeup and effects are awesome my only real problem with the film is that at times and it’s not like oh Marvel phase four it all the just the
crap you crap on with the marble face force CGI it is like there are times in the especially in the finale where you’re like you had some very noticeable CGI but when I was thinking that I was going Owen what movie doesn’t with a hat that relies on CGI some shots will inevitably be a bit better than others nobody has all the time they need it even the greatest technological looking movie of at the time it comes out you will have moments that go man that looks fake like some other minor qualms I might have
with the movie because yeah I do think it does a fantastic job World building and handling this Ensemble because it is very well written the entire thing is motivated within characters it’s a big film but it’s also extremely character driven but at times the editing can feel a tad off Pace but out of two hours and 40 minutes that thought maybe crossed my mind at a very small handful of times and there there’s the humor works and there’s only one scene of humor that felt like typical quote-unquote Marvel comedy but the rest of the scenes
that make you laugh they don’t feel that way I thought this was a damn near perfect experience and exactly what I thought it should be more than what I wanted it to be or expected it to be I thought it was great there’s a heavy hole throughout but also inspiring and hopeful did you just take different directions with characters you just wouldn’t expect and yes perhaps the best post-credits scene because it’s a legit powerful scene and not just like hey what’s coming next yeah yeah it’s it’s very very spiritually in line with the movie it
makes sense to separate it and make it the coda and I think it’s a really elegant use yeah it feels like the real ending yeah yeah absolutely I think it was a really elegant choice to do it that way like it could have ended where it ended but the post-credit feels like no this is the real ending and it does seem like the kind of movie that will give you more on repeat viewings for sure I want to watch it a couple more times but could be my favorite of the it’s just above throw 11th
it could be my favorite uh I I don’t know yet I have to watch it again what’d you guys think subscribe leave a like click that Bell um yeah wakanda forever this was this is one experience I’m never gonna forget no never never it was awesome this is truly unique
