Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Published February 4, 2023
Film info
- Title Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Director Ryan Coogler
- Year 2022
- Run time 2hrs 42m
- Genres Adventure, Action, Science-Fiction
- Tagline Forever.
In Marvel Studios' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 5:04 | Needs to happen but it’s a pretty brutal way to start the film. |
| 6:16 | Love what they’ve done with the ident though. |
| 19:15 | The ticker on the news about Scott Lang’s autobiography - Look Out for the Little Guy! |
| 25:14 | Science vs faith, as always. |
| 27:50 | “I am not a woman who enjoys repeating herself.” |
| 36:14 | The iPhone is primitive, eh? |
| 41:56 | Po-po. |
| 48:02 | They just catching rides on whales now, as you do. |
| 51:31 | Don’t be sharing masks, please. |
| 53:16 | Wait, what? During their marriage? |
| 1:05:32 | “How is never as important as why.” |
| 1:10:20 | “Why are you telling me all of this?” Exposition, obvs. |
| 1:22:08 | Quite a lot of map checking going on during this. Love it. |
| 1:36:42 | Epic swan dive. |
| 1:38:41 | I feel like someone has bought a slo-mo water plugin and they want max use out of it. |
| 1:52:45 | “Are you sure you don’t want me to bury you?” Never been surer of anything. |
| 1:58:47 | YAAS we have a Black Panther! |
| 2:08:38 | Deadly sauna. |
| 2:10:47 | Black Panther/Iron Man mashup. |
Thoughts
Hmm, bit of a disappointment this one. The tribute to Chadwick Boseman was great and I appreciate the characters needed room to grieve, but the film was far too long for the story it had to tell. There’s a good movie in there, it just got swallowed up by negative points like the length, the fact that it’s trying to be Avatar, that the awesome science kid isn’t really given much to do.
I like that it’s a movie really driven by women, and that we have a new Black Panther, but it all just takes so long to get there. And it’s hard because the first movie was so good, that this one is just more of a disappointment for it.
Rating: 2 / 5
