Surprisingly mediocre

Rating: 4/10 (2 June 2018)

I like comic-book movies as I read a lot of Marvel and DC comics when I was a child but I had mixed expectations of Black Panther. Mostly because I didn't read much of his comics and the character did not interest me much.
However the movie had great reviews and smashed a lot of box office records and Marvel movies have a good quality on average. But Black Panther I have to say was well below that average.
The action scenes were bland and not on par with other Marvel/DC movies and the CGI, which there is a lot of, was surprisingly mediocre. The story was bland and didn't make much sense to me. Something about some metal with magical properties giving both enhanced super powers and technology and they managed to somehow hide that from the rest of the world by isolating and hiding a whole country?
I mean in a world like Marvel where you have SHIELD and other super-spy organisations, none of them could figure out this high tech country? No, that is just nonsense, even for a comic book movie.
The characters were not that very interesting either. You have more than the usual dose of feminism with super smart and super strong female characters, none of which had much depth and were there just because they were women. The villain in the movie did show some promise but they didn't really explore him much and the hero, Black Panther, I can't say had neither the flare of Tony Stark nor the heart of Peter Parker. He was just another bland character in a bland movie with bland actors.