Significant, but overrated

Rating: 5/10 (16 December 2019)

There is no denying that Black Panther is an extremely important film, being a mainstream superhero movie with a mostly black cast that has good things to say. However, this does not excuse it from the major problems it contains.
I have never been so thoroughly able to predict the plot of a movie before. This is not to say that most Marvel movies don't have predictable plots, but with this one, it is more blatantly obvious than any other in the series. It is also not aided by the fact that it has a boring protagonist in a movie where every other character is more interesting than he is. Because he has no real enticement as the lead, it quickly reveals the other problems more readily than other Marvel movies as you are paying more attention to them.
The only part of this film that really deserves the praise it got is Killmonger. He is a great villain, the most interesting character in the movie, and has some really worthy things to say. But he cannot save the entire movie, which is so generally mediocre. It's no doubt an important movie, but that does not mean it doesn't have problems.