Meh - pretty flipping average

Rating: 5/10 (16 October 2018)

Disappointing. Just another superhero film but with a strangely realized African spin.
I could not quite get over how the Wakandan culture made no sense at all. They somehow became a super advanced country courtesy of finding Vibranium yet didn't get around to ever working out how to develop a democracy or proper legal system but rather having totalitarian regimes ruled by Kings who are chosen on their ability to physically fight each other - i.e. stone age tribe stuff. And when they get injured there's no sign of the super-duper technology but rather they're reaching for some healing plant or other. It's like you discovered some primitive tribe out in the depths of the Amazon rainforest and found they happened to have iPhones. Weird.
I can't work out if it's politically correct garbage or racist garbage. Are we being shown that black African cultures could be super advanced or being shown that even if they were, they'd still be acting like primitive tribes - which by the way, they're not even now.
All that aside, I found much of the acting pretty awful and the rest of the plot and effects just bog standard.
Overall very average. Defo will not be eagerly awaiting Black Panther 2