Is Black Panther as good as people are making it out to be? Marvel movies have recently been falling so flat to me (despite most of them getting great reviews) and feeling like basically CGI messes that I really am not excited even with all the praise.
I’ll be honest here. I enjoyed it well enough but it doesn’t live up to the hype. It’s nowhere near the Winter Solider or The Dark Knight which are my two favorites superhero movies. And there is a fair amount of crappy CGI throughout if your not fond of that. But it’s still a darn good movie. Just not great.
I feel it tries and feels relatively competent in areas modern blockbusters tend to ignore or pay lip service to at best. And really nothing more than competent. There’s a basic thematic thread, decent characters that support that thread well enough, and everything devolves into a whole lot of punching in a way that’s slightly less detrimental to the piece than you’d expect from an MCU installment. That said, it’s still pretty safe, a bit bland and not even ankle-deep as far substance is concerned, and I don’t really have any need to see it ever again. Disposable MCU product - I don’t mean it in a bad way, necessarily.
The movie is most impressive from a purely workmanlike point of view that has more to do with project management than moviemaking.