Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (19 July 2019)

I am not a Marvel fan, but I can enjoy most Marvel movies. After I read the reviews and saw the nominations of this movie i was actually for the first time since Avengers 2 interested in a Marvel movie. However after about 15 minutes in the film i started to feel, that all the reviews and nominations were probably not for an artistic reason.
I have three central problems with the film:
1. It is full of CGI
2. I do not care about the characters
3. There is nothing new about the story
I - CGI
There might be no other Marvel movies with that amount of CGI. The backgrounds, the suits, the weapons, everything shines and is clean. Yes some of it is not CGI, but even the practical effects and the real suits look like out of the computer. Of course this is a modern society, but i think african savannah would still leave some trace on all that fancy stuff. I generally thought this was a very ugly movie, only the mountain tribe looked interesting to me.
II - Characters
Okay, they tried to give Killmonger a good backstory. That worked for me fine, but while he has this tragic story, you make him also look like the most arrogant guy in the world. He claims to fight for the innocent yet he brags about how many of them he killed in unjust wars. And Black Panther basically becomes a guy who's only motivation is to be a good king. He has however no clue how to achieve that. In one scene he wants to only act in Wakanda, in the next he basically destroys big parts of Busan. I in no second cared about him. There are so many "cool" side characters, that you can not focus on one of them or on the main characters. In the end i don't care about who dies and it fits that Martin Freeman does not die even though he decides to sacrifice himself, because if he would have died there would have been one character that actually lost something.
III: Story
Everything in this movie has already been on screen for 100 times. A young king gets replaced by an evil family relative and decides to take the throne back with the help of some half-outlaws (that obviously refuse to fight because they could not be a Deus Ex Machina if they would not). You may love the movie, but no one can actually say that this story is innovative in any way. I was bored for most of the movie.
At last two small things:
Why do they speak bad english in Wakanda even though they were never an english colony?
Why are african and afro-american culture mixed. Why do we need american rap in Africa??