Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Troy Peterson

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022

★★★

Watched 11 Nov 2022

A movie I need to reflect on and revisit but one that's as frustrating as it is rewarding. While it's very cathartic to see Boseman mourned and it was so much fun to see Namor the Sub-Mariner onscreen finally, those two elements contribute to the movie feeling like it's 3 to 4 different projects smashed into one.

To be fair, it inherited that problem from the first one as well as the need to develop such a huge cast of characters that even a generous run-time can't effectively develop enough of them to make it hit like it should. All the characters aren't given enough time to grow through their grief so it's hard to hang onto a through-line. Hinging the third act on another character's death muddies the waters even further with a real-life death and a fictional death being pitted against each other and putting all the characters in an uncertain space.

However, it manages one thing that keeps it on par with the original and that is the stunning visuals. I've been seeing a lot of people slag it seemingly as a way to hype up the Avatar franchise (a bizarre thing to do by itself), but I thought Ryan Coogler and his team created a cool world to lose ourselves in for a bit with Talokan and other parts of the film beautifully realized. Just wish the characters could get just as much focus.

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