Bad? No. Spectacular? No.

Rating: 5/10 (28 March 2018)

When the Black Panther was first seen in Captian America: Civil War, everyone was excited for the first African superhero. So when the film released to success and praise from most fans, the hype grew around the character. Obviously, when the trailer for the Black Panther was released, the hype grew to an unrealistic level. Depending on who you ask, the film either delivers on the hype or it did not. In this review I will talk about what I liked and what I didn't like about this film.
To begin with the things I liked, I will talk about Andy Serkis's character of Ulysses Klaue. In my opinion, Andy Serkis portrayed this villain better than almost any other villain in marvel behind the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Loki in every other marvel movie. Klaues early death in this film was saddening to me but also a necessary development in the plot since even in death he progressed the plot on for Killmonger to get into Wakanda.
Second, I will talk about Killmonger, the second villain in the film. He is a villain with heart, which I can't say about most villains. He actually has depth and doesn't want to just destroy the world like most comic book villains. His intentions were good but were incrediblely stupid. I will talk about him a bit more later.
Last on the likes side, the costume and set design were phenomenal. Oscar worthy even. The extras were even good as extras. They weren't doing weird things.
On to the dislikes, I will start start with the plot. The plot is generic. It has been told before. I assume that everyone has heard of the plot type before. Establish hero, establish villain, villain travels to town/kingdom, villain challenges and appears to kill hero, villain shows he's evil, hero gets back and regains strength, hero kills or defeates the villain. This plot will stand the rest of time for how generic it is.
Killmonger is next on the list. Despite his good intentions, his ideas were incredibly stupid. Only in today's society would think that giving futuristic weapons to a group of people to let them fight there way out of trouble would be a good idea.
Overall this movie wasn't half bad. Was it new? Spectacular? Or even good? Not particularly. I consider this movie to be on the list of movies that arnt bad but have been made to many times before. Take Kingsman: The Golden Circle or The Hobbit Trilogy for example. Both are good movies. It suck if compared to there predecessors.
I give this film a solid 5/10 for not being good or bad. Just right there in the middle. It didn't live up to the hype, even a smaller margin of the hype wasn't achieved, in my opinion. But mainly, it didn't bring anything new to the table.