Recently, I had the pleasure to watch the film Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler. This film was about T'challa, the new born king rising to the thrown after the death of his father. When a new foe arrives in his home city of Wakanda, T'challa has to fight off Erik Killmonger, Wakanada's new born threat in order to save his home from it's demise.
Spoilers...
The movie begins with a foreshadowing story, which is hard to understand at first but makes a lot of sense later on in the movie. This scene showed the motive for the antagonist's plan for Wakanda's future. T'challa began to retaliate in the begging against a man named Klaue, who stole an artifact from a museum containing a special element called vibranium along side Erik Killmonger. This element is the main source of power and energy in Wakanda, it is part of the reason why their home is technologically advanced. Keep in mind, Wakanda is in fact hidden from the outside world, so for this element to be found out by the public is a big issue (considering they want to sell the element). T'challa, does his best to take down Klaue, and succeeds to stop him, only to strive Killmonger for more greatness among himself.
Killmonger starts his new journey by killing Klaue, and challenging T'challa to battle for the thrown. Killmonger proceeds to win this fight, making it look as if he has killed T'challa (even though fans and viewers can tell that he hasn't died). Eventually, T'challa is brought back to life with magic from within Wakanda culture, and he proceeds to fight Killmonger in a battle against exposing Wakanda and Vibranium to the public eye. In the end, T'challa becomes victories and saves his homeland from its fate.
Wow. That is the first word that came to mind when watching this film. Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler has to be by far one of my favorite Marvel Movies of all time. The entire thing was just an immaculate display of action at all the right times, nothing overdone, and all the right perfection. Chadwick Boseman did an amazing job as T'challa, the Black Panther himself, and Michael B. Jordan was the perfect actor to play the villain in the story. I absolutely loved his new suit, and the idea that Wakanda's technology is still advancing to this day! The two suit designs instead of one was great foreshadowing of the soon to be battle between the black panthers at the end (T'challa and Killmonger). I knew during this scene that there was a reason for having two suits, and at first I thought that they would be used in different occasions for different reasons, but instead I taken back by the plot twists with the death of T'challa, and his re awaking to battle, and kill Killmonger. In my opinion, I think that T'challa should have been the one with the gold suit instead of Killmonger, because the gold to me resembles wealth and positivity, and the purple is just something that looks totally bad ass and almost sinister in a way. I think that the suit alone would have been cool, but the fact that there was an option between the two colors makes me think that the good guy should have had the brighter, more positive color, and the villain should have the darker more evil looking color. That is my only honest complaint about this movie. I loved everything else about this movie, from its choices in setting, to its choices in the plot. My favorite scene has to be the one in the city with the car chases. I love how the director chose to emphasize how advanced the technology was by not only giving them "ear pieces" to use that reach each other from across the planet, but also being able to control specific surroundings from afar as well. For example, when T'challa's sister is controlling the car for him from home, I love how the director (Ryan Coogler) decides to make cuts from the car where the girls and T'challa are to back in Wakanda so we can see the point of view and reaction of all of the characters in this scene. It helps build tension and makes the movie a lot more interesting and fun to watch. This has to be hands down one of the best movies I have ever seen, and one of the best Marvel movies out right now. I would rate this movie a good good, and would watch it again any day!
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