Average blockbuster, let down by blatantly racist post-colonial undertones

Rating: 4/10 (14 February 2019)

I understand why people want to like this film. There isn't enough cinema which focuses on African people or nations in a positive way, but this film really isn't doing that. All it is doing is perpetuating the myth that Africans believe that violence is a reasonable way to resolve disputes, and that "might is right".
I find it very hard to believe that portraying the most advanced African nation as an isolationist dynastic monarchy/dictatorship which eschews democracy in favour of 1 on 1 armed combat, tribalism and nepotism is "woke"? Really?
This portrayal of "advanced" Africans primarily as warriors, rather than intellectuals (their technology is only achieved by their luck in living near the only know site containing Vibranium, rather than by their inherent ability as capable human beings to create an advanced society) is incredibly insulting and reinforces the racist stereotype of Africa as being socially backward and perpetually driven, and riven, by violence.
Apart from that, it is a reasonably entertaining, if forgettable, film in the same vein as most other recent superhero offerings.