Review of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) by Trunker — 12 Nov 2022

I'm so disappointed.

I am honestly disappointed with what I just watched. The first black panther film moved the world but this sequel sucked.

There's a whole arc in this film that literally exists to set up future projects and honestly would have been a much better film without this. Like how can they have the audacity to do this with the most important MCU film since endgame, it's a slap in the face. And on top of that the character in question was terrible (not too surprising considering original iron heart comic was also terrible).

All I've been hearing about this film is how it go it's Chadwicks legacy, I may be wrong her and people can take what they saw differently to me but where was all this? A quick death/write off in the beginning and ok a good looking funeral then it's one year later and goodbuy T'Challa. I think they seriously messed this up, T'Challa is arguably the most important MCU character since Iron Man and that's what they give him? I mourned the loss of Chadwick like we all did but I just felt that the character was done serious injustice here. Should've definitely been recast , they underestimated how much the character means to the world (ours and MCU).

Namor was the only saving grace for me, but sorry what was that ending? Made him look so weak. I hated how ironheart just figured out his weakness and it was thrown off because of how intelligent she is, really awful.

I wish I could sit down with Ryan Coogler and pick his brain about what went on here. I know it was always going to be difficult but I felt like there could've been so much more done with this film.