Review of Black Panther (2018) by Jack Q — 03 Mar 2018

Honest review,.

Meh... for theater but good for DVD or Streaming.

I really like the main actor and most of the supporting actors and think they did a good job overall. The story was interesting overall and didn't feel like I wasted my money like Star Wars.

For the price I give it a 3.

The problems that stopped me from a 5 star or 4.

1. The CGI with the ship flying around during the first act really looked like old tech from 10 years ago. I'm not sure if it was the way it flew or the shadowing but it was off and distracting.. almost looked pasted in cheaply.

2. I understand that a tribe in Africa do have disks in their lips but to keep showing it was goofy.

3. The fight scene on the water fall when they showed them fighting close to the edge and where the Shaman spoke looked like a very bad green screen job and dated.

4. Unlike other Marvel movies where they have fun and sharp witted humor this was dry and not really fun at all.

5. Some of the fight stunts were way over the top and just too much... expected a little more since this movie was trying to be of a more serious tone.

6. They don't seem to have a problem putting down the US...

7. The white main bad guy's missing arm part didn't look right and when sitting in the chair you can tell he just had a green sock over his forearm...

8. The token white guy CIA agent didn't fit the part.

9. Hints of Racism against whites is not a good idea at all since this will be the main audience paying to go to this and is not a good step to try and heal overblown media sensationalized for votes racism in the US.

10. Many dark scenes that were hard to see the people no matter what color of skin they have and very hard to see when the Hero is wearing a black suit...

11. The club fight scene was very blurry and out of focus. The camera moved so much that it just seemed like a mess and was hard to see the action for most of it.

Bottom line: Worth a rent and maybe they could get better writing, director and CGI people in the next one and leave out the racism. Black people have been in top Positions in Movies, TV shows, Sports, Music, Science, Military, Police, Medicine for a very very very long time and I think the first woman in this country to be a self made millionaire was Black back in the late 1800s...so to act like this is the first is kinda stupid and too be honest doesn't help with race relations in this country at all.

Hope this helps.