It's painfully average/utterly forgettable. Save your money and spend it on something worthwhile like a reuben sandwich. You'll get more worth out of a gas station beef patty.

Rating: 4/10 (20 March 2018)

It's not as good as people are saying it is, it's a boring dull and uninspired Marvel movie that pales in comparison to the last three Marvel films which were for the most part decent fun films. Everything that made the last three Marvel films fun and entertaining are gone from this one. Black Panther tries to way more serious in tone taking on a more mature story and in the process fails miserably putting itself on an equal footing with films like Ant Man and the second Iron Man movie. It's not awful but chances are you won't be remembering this after a couple days.
Funny enough the plot for this film is an almost beat for beat carbon copy of Thor Ragnarok (extra points for originality!) which I liked, you've got the son of a great king finding out that his father ain't all that great of a guy, you've got the blood relative that comes to usurp the throne that is originally bestowed upon the main guy, the main guy meets daddy in Marvel hell and gains the mojo he needs to beat up the big baddy, main guy takes the aid of an army force and takes back the throne. The similarities even extend to the main guy teaming up with his likeable funny sibling that everyone loves. Now if these two films have so much in common then how come one of ems a steaming pile of mediocrity? Taika Waititi realized that Thor is a dumb character and that no one wants to see another Thor 1 or 2 and instead aimed for a lighthearted fun comedy action film that doesn't try to be anything that it isn't unlike BP. It's the banter and character interactions within Thor Ragnarok that elevate it above an average Marvel film, Waititi is aware that you can't create a serious Dark Knight esque film about a character like Thor without deviating from the generic Marvel formula and having it come out as a tonally inconsistent forgettable mess. BP is in essence, a dry bland boring version of TR that misses out on the interesting likeable characters and humor that made TR great.
Visuals were okay except for the CG which was laughable especially during fight scenes, speaking of fight scenes the choreography felt very lackluster. The pacing for the first half or so of the film felt very sluggish. The bloodless brutality was strange, I get that its PG-13 but I mean come on. Characters in this film were mostly forgettable despite most performances being solid. The best character in the film Andy Serkis is killed off early on to help further MBJ's plot. Some characters felt pointless Daniel Kaluuya's role felt like a cheap segway into Michael B Jordan's character Kilmonger. Another generic Marvel villain who I can't for the love of god understand why people care for. His garbled motivations and nonsensical plans were laughable and I couldn't take his name, backstory, or really anything seriously.
I don't want to sound like I hated this film, It's just extremely mediocre. The most I can speak of for positives is the films soundtrack and even then it isn't even implemented that well into the film, the soundtrack that was advertised all over the trailers is sorely underused and its a damn shame. That and the fusion of traditional African into the films score was nice. That's about it.
I give this 4 gas station beef patties /10