Not surprised by some of the reviews

Rating: 9/10 (21 February 2018)

So, let's begin. As a black man, I'm proud to see a film that took on the challenge of a complex character, with a black director, black cast and black soundtrack production(excluding Surkis' mixtape). It was unprecedented but more importantly...... about time. Now granted at the end of the day this is a comic book movie. As a first go run for BP, i won't whine like other reviewers who claim that this was nothing major. Captain America: The First Avenger was nothing to shout about BUT it, just as BP, was a build up movie. It gave us history of a character and a country that looked something out of Star Wars.
I also liked that the movie attempted to highlight social issues. Wakanda has had advanced technology for centuries but chose to do nothing about slavery, euro/asian colonization of Africa, apartheid, rape of Africa's resources...the list goes on. It just touches the surface of it and surprisingly, Killmonger and N'jobu did an amazing job bringing that to light.
Also, I don't know if Coogler meant to do this on purpose but the way the world views Wakanda feels similar to what I've experienced as far as racism. Klaw views Wakandans as "savages who don't deserve vibranum". The asian lady in Korea who looked at Nakia the same way I'm sure Soon Ja Du looked at Latasha Harlins before murdering her in 1992 which was a precursor for the LA Riots. The way the female SHIELD agent looked at TChalla and Okoye with disgust outside of the interrogation room. Or even the UN delegate's disrespectful tone towards T'Challa by saying "wtf assistance could your sh*thole country possibly offer the world". These subtle tones of racism just had me going "yep, me too" in the theater.
But even if you couldn't relate to the movie you have to admit it's still good. Not the best comic book movie ever made but definitely top 5. I've seen it twice already and might go a 3rd. Can't wait to see what they do for BP 2. They've introduced too many other interesting characters for there not to be other films. Hopefully Coogler will be directing that as well.