Really? how did critics give this such a high score?

Rating: 5/10 (13 April 2018)

I don't know where to begin. As a brainless action movie, its okay. Otherwise, its just a bad movie.
Imagine this :
Child of traitor was brought to wakanda, to be raised together with spoiled prince. Child of traitor was bullied, and in one turn of events, ended up running away or kicked out of palace by the spoiled prince, to live in hardships in one of the african nation, learning to hunt and fight with the natives of the tribe.
Now grown up, this child of traitor comes back to wakanda to find the spoiled prince is now a dictator with black panther superpowers.
Rallying popular support of the opressed folk, child of traitor fought against this dictator, regains peace in wakanda, and becomes the black panther.
Was that the movie we watched? No. but that would have been an amazing movie with character progression, and an actual reason, a hero we can sympathize with. But what did we get instead:
Premise : Confused, does not make sense.
1. We've got a utopia nation that has an action hero equipped with james bond gadget as a king. Seriously, whats going on here? The last black panther was the old king, he was ...what, 70 or 80 when he died?
The last time he ran around with his black panther costume was probably 30 years ago. What is black panther for in this utopia nation? They made it clear time and again that the nation does not deal with the rest of the world. So .... is the black panther king's role in the last century to catch petty thieves in the capital of wakanda?
Why is there a fully equipped state of the art james bond type lab dedicated to black panther, if black panther is inherently not needed in his own country, AND, if black panther was this old 70 year old king who hasn't worn the costume for decades?
2. We've got confused evil dudes. They sound like good guys, they want to help the rest of the black world, and not just keep Wakanda's prosperity to themselves. WHOA. they sound like heroes. And to do this...they are going to sell to arms dealers, rob banks, give weapons to gangs in New York?? No seriously. They could be smuggling blue prints of technology or medicines. Or something else, for the greater good of their people outside wakanda. Or education. Anything. And did i hear new york? What is this, 1800, age of slavery? What black person is not a free person in new york today? No, this is simply a blacks vs whites movie. With one token white dude. And the misguided bad guys idea of spreading the prosperity of wakanda to others seems to be to start a neighbourhood war by giving weapons to gangs. Yeah, thats a believable premise. Why not steal wakanda's technologies and give them to african nations?
Action quality : Poor
I watched the 3D version of this. Maybe its the 3D glasses, but I never had this problem before: The movie action scenes are too dark. Imagine this : The opening action scene is a man dressed in all black kicking ass of people in the dead of the night. No, seriously, what really happened in the final fight? I can't see whats going on. 2 guys in all black fighting in the middle of poorly lit cavern. They had to keep opening up their masks in the middle of a fight to reveal who is who. Its all a blur of black shadows. Imagine if Spiderman or batman or captain america has to take off their masks in the middle of a fight every now and then to talk. Thats just ridiculous. They could have done the fight in a brighter cavern. or any number of things.
Character Progression : NONE.
The bad guys born to be bad, the hero was born to be a hero. None of that struggle Tony stark had to deal with to be a hero. Or Christian Bale in batman begins. Nothing. Black panther is an inherited role, and even when he predictably lost his power as heroes do in movies, he did not have to do anything to regain it. He simply woke up and drunk a potion. No, really?
Seriously, the bad guy had more potential for an interesting character. To bad, he was not either.
Seriously, the only significant thing this movie has is its casting. Finally, a blockbuster not only dominated by white cast. Except, do we really need one to completely be dominated by black cast? Can't there be a balance where diversity triumph? Is it always a competition?