Black Panther: Over rated Lion King experience

Rotten Tomatoes review was so impressive that I had high expectation of Black Panther. The trailer left me thinking the Marvel had score another goal. After finishing the movie, I had other thoughts. The movie is just average.

Black Panther follows the story of T Challa as he ascended the throne of Wakanda after the former king was killed in Civil War. Being a highly advance country built on the world reserve of the powerful mineral vibranium. Wakanda has been practicing close door policy and hiding the fact regarding their technology, portraying themselves as a poor third world African country. Beside inheriting the throne, he inherit the role of Black Panther as well, a protecting role of the country with access to heart shaped flower which imbue whoever ingest them with superhuman strength, speed and power. The rest of the movie follows the new king as he journey on his new role, torn between his own values and tradition. As a new threat to the throne appears, his beliefs and value are restored and finally emerge as the rightly new king. That sounds so Lion King.


The details are amazing. Colorful, vibrant and natural. Minus the fact that most of the Wakandan speaks English more than native African. I would not be sure whether the details are authentic, but it is as impressive as ever. Casting is spot on, even with many comments that  MCU took lots of changes on screen. The action sequence is bit of expected though. For most of us who got used to MCU big fights with laser and explosion, Black Panther fights with fists and knives were just OK. The main problem with all MCU movies is under develop villain. Although the script tried to form a revenge backstory for Kilmonger, but he was poorly written, came out stereotyped. Nothing beats the Joker yet.


Do not get me wrong, MCU still make good movies. Black Panther is still enjoyable. However, with so many gems under MCU label, more can be done for Black Panther, especially it is just one movie away from the finale Infinity War, the closing chapter for 10 years MCU plan.

ratings: 3 poink~!
comments: would not miss much even miss out this movie. Looking forward for Thanos with his infinity gauntlet....