A Movie that May Define 2018 Landscape

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2018)

The first hit of the year. Starting 2018 off in a good way, Black Panther was able to continue the Marvel way, and provide a timely, fun, and thought provoking film.
Marvel has proven they will not back down from the current themes in the US. With the tensions and focus on inequality between race and gender building in the past few years, Black Panther has come out on the forefront of the movement, showing how powerful a movie can be, with an almost completely black cast, and a movie that really used women in prominent roles.
Black Panther took us on a journey into a "world" never seen before. Showing us Wakanda, a land that has found itself right in the juxtaposition of modern and advanced civilization, with a very primal and ancestral culture. They played up this juxtaposition and then put it to the test. With the arrival of Michael B. Jordan, as Killmonger, they were forced to ask the question, "what do we do, when we don't trust our leader?"
In a culture, where you put your trust in your leader to protect you, this brought them into a new test of "what does the future look like" in the advancing times, and the changing atmospheres in both the movie and real life. The movie comes to the climax of moving forward.
Played marvelously throughout, the cast played off of each other so well, expressing their turmoil in their own, personal ways, they each provided a unique view that drove the tense storyline.
This is definitely a movie that will continue the Marvel story line. Even though it really was a standalone movie, Black Panther will be a movie that will be remembered and one that may in the end, help to define 2018 in film.