Review on the movie "BLACK PANTHER"

!!BLACK PANTHER!!

Black Panther
Director - Ryan Coogler
Cast - Chadwick Boseman, Michael B Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forewst Whitaker, Andy Serkis
Rating - 4.5/5

If the movies have been responsible for tarnishing the reputation of an entire culture, then the responsibility to rebuild it also must fall on them.

It has taken a decade, 18 films – most good, some great, none bad – hundreds of actors, thousands of crew and billions of dollars for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to arrive at this point. The road hasn’t always been pretty, but we’re here now, older, hopefully wiser, and excited for what comes next.

Black Panther is a film that is as much about respecting the past as it is about embracing the future. So it begins with a story, about Wakanda, a fictional African nation hidden away from the world, behind impenetrable rainforests and unconquerable mountains, uncolonised, unchained.

It is the home of T’Challa, who until recently was the crown prince of the country. His father was murdered in Berlin during the events of Captain America: Civil War – we sat and watched in quiet shock as T’Challa wept with the King’s head in his arms, his final words to him ringing in his head.

Black Panther has been shot by the first woman to have been nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar, Rachel Morrison.

Now T’Challa must return to Wakanda, to take over the throne, and become the rightful heir. So he buckles into a futuristic aircraft with his general, Okoye, and his ex, Nakia, and returns home, through impenetrable rainforests and over unconquerable mountains. And as played by Chadwick Boseman, he has the swagger of Kanye West, the theatricality of Beyonce and the raw charm of Barack Obama.

Black Panther is Marvel continuing what films like the last couple of Captain America movies, and even Thor: Ragnarok, to an extent, started; I dare say, for over an hour, it is barely even a superhero movie. But this is just what Marvel needed at this stage in their industry-altering and blazingly ambitious series of interconnected movies. True, there is a lot here that seems signature Marvel – most depressingly, they’ve once again fallen in the trap of pitting the hero against a beefier version of himself, and the action is Marvel action, which means a lot of quick cuts and very little sense – but there is more that seems unlike anything we’ve seen in a movie before, let alone a Marvel film.

Thank you!!