Absolute brilliance! Artistic masterpiece! Genius!

Rating: 10/10 (26 February 2018)

Two thousand years ago a magician named Dedi performed a trick whereby he cut off a goose's head and reattached it.
Years later David Blaine performed the same magic and wowed audience. See, when I first dabbled in magic, I hated the mantra that "it's not what you show, but how you show".
But as I matured, I understood. Same thing applies to this movie. See, anything and everything that can be done under the sun has been done to death. 99% of the crappy movies Hollywood produce are rehashes. What idiots bashing this film doesn't get is that it is NOT about the plot. It's about artistic showcase.
The first five seconds is alone worth the entrance fee. It's creative, edge, sci-fy and draws on from different flavors of movies. Deadpool-esque action? Check. James Bond meets Iron Man? Check. A bit of Oakland, California street flavor? Check.
This movie's originality lies in the nuances. Every frame had something to offer. And it moved at rapid pace. No repeats. Every frame tells a story and ushers in next scene triggering Chekov's gun.
For instance, the majestic and stellar costume is alone worth hours and hours of scrutiny and dissection. Then the custom font. The locket designs. Etcetera etcetera.
It's like a fractal. The more you analyze the more it unfolds.
My favorite of course was Queen's stunning and majestic white dress. The train scenes. The challenge... Heck the entire movie!
In a slightly jovial note, a testament to a film's strength is how long you can stave off peeing. Haha!! I really needed to go bad at the first ten minutes but I had such a morbid FOMO that I managed to stave it off for 1 whole hour and couldn't take it any longer. It even made me wonder if I should give it 9 stars since it ruined my experience by being TOO GOOD!!!
It's like a gift that kept on giving. Layers and layers of never ending down the rabbit hole to an Oz land.
It highlighted pride and power of Africa. No scenes were duplicates. Even the "challenges" that were duplicated were different in same context.
It's pure artistic genius. Little things like an African saying flawless Chinese, the spear scenes, the Amazon Alexa type of futurstic hologram, the smattering of history lessons on African masks, the "Baby don't hurt me..", turning the table of Africa on America, "knives are so primitive" line, "colonizer" swanky diss, the unbelievable intro without making any splash, brouhaha or stupid Mission Impossiblesque mindless explosion, but rather a nonchalant, subdued and subtle African theme of sounds instead of score and splicing shots in supernatural fashion....jusqua right dosage really hit the spot for me.
I never read a single page of comic book for this character but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The acting is solid. The jokes are funny. The originality lies in showing the same things that were done to death by Hollywood in a new light with all the colors, aura and halation of African culture, pride and majestic beauty.
This movie is not about the plot. It's about artistic showcase.
Can't believe so many spate of negative reviewers putting salty comments. Makes you wonder about credibility and leitmotif.
I went to Downtown Disney with primarily white audience who took their kids and they gave a scattered applause at the end.
Then again white people are hard to please anyways. Especially the college read academic ones.