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Did not care that much for it. Too little Panther and too much Wakanda perhaps. Not sure what it was, but I was not feeling the characters that much. Even their betrayals felt kind of flat to me. And a few things annoyed me:

1: We are introduced to these amazing sneakers.... and then they newer use them? I don’t know, I was just waiting for some cool ninja stuff, and gut snuffed.

2: the "deactivating the vibranium” setup on the magnetic railway, was dumb to me? Part of the comics? To me this opens a whole new can of worms… Cap’s shield can be deactivated now, I guess.

3: The bad guy helped Gollum and even helped him escape the prison - and being seen doing it - and then he kills him to have a trophy to get into Wakanda (yet the King has seen him help Gollum)???.... he was of royal blood line already which was enough, and we learn the true reason he get to challenge the king… why was all this pregame necessary and why not just kill Gollum, as he anyway had been an enemy of the state for decades? Weak filler plotline, imo.

4: So the get-out actor betrayed his king and best friend because he felt the need of some more action? Perhaps, but it felt flat on me, not believable characterization...

5: CGI was at times unnecessary bad. The flying "spaceship" could be taken out of an Australian tv movie – especially notice its shadow.

Allright I liked stuff too. I like that is was an all African story and I liked how it for once did not diss on the Africans... that was a cool change of pace, but not enough to make the movie through and through solid.

PS: The final scene is the Panther about to say something, cut to credits …. The first post credit scene is the Panther about to say something, cut to credits….. the last post credit scene is the Winter Soldier about to say something, cut to credits. I smell a lack of imagination.

PPS: The praise it gets made me make this post, I think. The movie is okay…. but not much more.

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I found the movie rather boring. Only time I laughed was when the rhinos came stampeding into battle. But that wasn't supposed to be funny.

This is one of my least favourite MCU movies.

Three things stuck out for me:

1) Everyone is black.

2) The lack of MCU cameos.

3) Bilbo vs. Gollum.

I would've already forgotten this movie if I wasn't wondering why there is so much hype. I'm guessing my list item #1 is the main reason for the hype, but that is a purely socio-political point, and has nothing to do with a good movie... #2 was disappointing (thank god for Bucky) and #3 made me laugh (at the movie, not with it).

Meh.

@WithADoveInOneHand said:

Three things stuck out for me:

1) Everyone is black.

2) The lack of MCU cameos.

3) Bilbo vs. Gollum.

I would've already forgotten this movie if I wasn't wondering why there is so much hype. I'm guessing my list item #1 is the main reason for the hype, but that is a purely socio-political point, and has nothing to do with a good movie... #2 was disappointing (thank god for Bucky) and #3 made me laugh (at the movie, not with it).

Meh.

The hype is surely associated to number 1. And I can see that, for once it is not the classic black guy gets axed first kind of thing... so this is nice to see. Does it make it a good movie etc. not at all. I wish the hype was more honest because praising it as one of the greats is beyond me, and I think it is not just a question of opinion or taste. The movie is fine to perhaps just okay, but nothing more.

I loved it because of the strong female characters and the well developed villain. It was also a lot of fun.

And, yeah, it was cool to see Bilbo take on Gollum, lol.

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