Not a bad film, just not good compared to other MCU

Rating: 6/10 (6 May 2018)

SPOILER: I am on a catch-up watching films I've missed before seeing Infinity Wars, so I watched this back-to-back with two other MCU films. On it's own it would stand up fine, but compared to them it is not great. Far from bad, just not up there. 6/10 is about right: worth watching, but don't pick it over anything interesting.
I do like one decision, which is to make the black characters, "good" and "bad", super racist.
They make the evil South African look racially tolerant and benevolent, and the CAA operative look positively angelic (although being Martin Freeman with an American accent, a bit odd). This is an essential idea for the mythos and plot. The Wakandans are racist against tribes from other nations in the region, who they refuse to help, and a little bit racist towards the fifth Wakandan tribe; the opponents are racist in thinking Wakanda should help black Americans just because they, too are black.
No side is very sympathetic therefore, which makes for an interesting plot and a film in which you invest in individual characters, not in "sides" because the sides (of which there are three) are all based on different bigotries