Not particularly a great movie, but not as bad as some say either!!

Rating: 7/10 (11 April 2018)

Out of all the recent Marvel movies to be released, Black Panther is the one I was looking forward to the most. Black Panther is a Marvel character that I was very unfamiliar with (much like Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch and pretty much all of the guardians of the galaxy characters, etc), so I was very keen to see its own solo movie and I will say that the film is entertaining and the action scenes are decent, though not as impressive as the fights involving Black Panther in the previous Captain America movie, Civil War.
I won't go into too much detail, but basically the movie is about T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) becoming the King of Wakanda (a secret society hidden within the mountains and forest) who is then challenged by Kilmonger (Michael B Jordan) a rebel who believes that he has been abandoned by his people and starts planning to take over Wakanda as its leader. The supporting cast are all good and I'm always happy to see Angela Bassett, in any movie.
If there are weaknesses to the film, I would say that it's mainly to do with some of the characters, there really is not much development with them, especially with Kilmonger. Those who complain about the lack of an origin story, do not forget we did get some of that with the Civil War movie and Black Panther basically continues on from there.
Overall, it's an entertaining movie certainly worth watching and for me, a better movie than either of the guardians of the galaxy movies (yeah as you can tell I can't stand those movies).