Boring, unfunny and kind of good?

Rating: 6/10 (1 June 2018)

When the movie Black Panther first came out, it was given really high scores by critics and audiences alike so going in to first watch this movie, I was pretty pumped to watch it but walking out, I realised that it dragged most of the time, the action felt pretty sloppy sometimes and most of the humour felt pretty unfunny but hey, the villain is probably the best I've seen in any MCU movie in a long time.
Starting with the most notable of positives, the villain, Kilmonger. At first, he just seems like yet another bland, boring and terrible villain but later on you begin to realise his true motivation which is his belief that Wakanda should be put on the map which he tries to get everyone to believe which is so well done that it saves this movie alone from being considered another average, lacklustre Marvel movie which in itself is a big accomplishment which is kind of incredible.
Something minor is Klaw, the supposed main villain until Kilmonger kills him, is probably the funniest part of this movie, whose lines are executed very well by Andy Serkis who I kind of hated in Avengers 2 as the scenes were really mediocre at best but he's actually pretty good which is a relief as Ryan Coogler said 'Hey, we can do justice to this character still, right?' and I'll give it to the guy, he did it pretty well.
The performances given by Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan in particular are phenomenal. I really liked Chadwick Boseman in Captain America: Civil War and I can say the same for this movie. However, Michael B. Jordan steals the show. Not only is he written superbly, he is by far the most competent out of everyone else in the movie as he's been in other blockbusters like Creed which I really enjoyed in the end.
The major gripe I possess is that the movie mostly drags as most of it is political which is different, sure but it's a superhero movie so I don't really get invested in it at all most of the time.
While Klaw's humour worked for me, the rest certainly didn't. I can't believe that the movie actually has the audacity to think that the 'What are those?' joke is still funny as when it was used everyone laughed and I did not. I actually think that it made me angry because it wasn't funny back in 2014 or whenever it first was introduced, and it certainly wasn't funny in the cinema when saw it.
The action, which I usually regard as awesome in nearly every MCU movie is actually pretty lacklustre as the Wakandan tech used forces the movie to use makes the scenes really fake looking as the CG is ever so saturated within them. This however, only applies to the scenes where T'Challa is the Black Panther but when he fights Man-Ape and Kilmonger on the kingship battles because it doesn't have to rely on CG to carry potentially good action and make it all bombastically fake looking.
Overall, Black Panther is a movie that is a movie that I definitely consider to be one of the most overrated MCU movies in a while that I'm giving a six out of ten. Hopefully, Ryan Coogler gives us a equally interesting villain in the sequel to this because let's face it, it's inevitable that it will and he improves the overly comical and mostly sloppy action by giving us a balance between the story, the characters and the action.