When I first watched this film in the cinema it was hard not to notice how important it was to the Afro and black communities.

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2020)

When I watched it at home with my girlfriend I realised that this film had much more to give, in the form of very different, very important female characters that kicked arse and remained feminine. She was fist pumping and remarking plenty on the characters and investing in all the Marvel silliness.
Points about radicalisation and nationalism are touched on, and it's great to see Wakanda as a nation similar to Africa if it hadn't been colonised. But the rest of the politics are shaky and the story and beats plain, and I still maintain that killing instead of uniting with Kilmonger feels like the wrong move.
It's a shaky film in parts and rereads a lot of old ground. But sometimes using simple and repeatable archetypes and moulds are important in the early stages of representation and inclusivity.
I'm confident that a bold Black Panther 2 could tell a new and important story with the same great characters.