Title - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Production - Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
Starring - Letitia Wright, Tenoch Huerta, Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Martin Freeman, Dominique Thorne, Florence Kasumba, Michaela Cole, Mabel Cadena, Alex Livinalli
Writer - Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole
Director - Ryan Coogler
Release - 10 November 2022
Before going into the movie, the only things that we hear about it was how it was an emotional send-off to Chadwick Boseman. But what they didn't mention was how much growth the Marvel lore and the Wakandan characters were forced to go through.
The farewell to Boseman was nicely done, although a few scenes felt a little forced or took up too much time in the grander scale of things. I know, it felt blasphemous to say because I, too, loved what Boseman did with the character. But I think this might be because we did not see him at all in the movie to give the storyline more weight. This, after all, was a movie, first and foremost.
However, when we saw the world building, or what little glimpse we were treated to (and I wished there were more) of the underwater kingdom of Talokan; you felt a shift in what the MCU is about. And how they ended Talokan in the movie left so much possibility of where they could go with the story.
The growth of Shuri, played by Letitia Wright, was one of the best I've seen since Tony Stark in Iron Man. I wished there was a bit more time spent right at the end, though, because the turn made by Shuri felt a little bit abrupt.
After Captain America, my favourite character now in the whole of MCU is Danai Gurira's Okoye. She continue to entertain me. And one of the best scenes in the MCU, the most powerful and explosive performance I've ever seen, was right here in Angela Bassett's Ramonda.
Lupita Nyong'o's Nakia and Winston Duke's M'Baku continued to be great in the sequel. I was a bit disapointed that we still have no clear visuals of how Nakia fought with her weapons, or what they could do.
What we didn't really need was Dominique Thorne's Riri Williams, who did not look the age she needed to be, at all. And her Iron-suit, even with the help of Wakandan technology, was a version of Iron Man Mark II at best.
The introduction to Namor was done really well and played so ferociously by Tenoch Huerta. To threaten Queen Ramonda, and be imposing in a scene opposite Bassett was no small feat; but I believed him.
I'm very happy with how the movie ended, minus the mid-credit scene. I am very much invested in where these characters go next.
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