Black Panther
Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Michael
B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira
Director: Ryan Coogler
The film is an amazing mythical,
cool superhero drama that confronts modern political agonies in complex and
resonant ways. Marvel's first black superhero finally gets his dues, leaping
from the page to his first solo movie. After debuting in Captain America: Civil
War, Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa gets the origin treatment in director Ryan
Coogler's standalone effort. With the Black Panther not only being a superhero
but also king of an entire country, stands to bring something new to the tone of
the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wrapping it all in fantastic afro-futuristic
visuals.
Coogler's skillful balancing of a
high-tech spy gadgetry, ceremonial palace intrigue, fantasy action mayhem, and
subversive political critique is unparalleled in the larger Marvel Cinematic
Universe that Black Panther springs from. In the same way Creed, his propulsive
and knowing reboot of the Rocky franchise, paid tribute to and upended boxing
iconography. Coogler's take on superhero-dom is both pleasing and probing.
Basically, he's got Soundcloud jokes, rhino battles, and takes on imperialism.
The larger ideological conflict between the new king T'Challa (Boseman) and the
American revolutionary Killmonger (Jordan) has been seen before in the pages of
history books and comics, but it's never been given this type of eye-popping,
brain-scrambling, heart-pounding blockbuster treatment.
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