Finally watched BP last night and thought it was a great superhero movie. Up there with the best of the Marvel movies.
One thing that struck me afterwards, was that for all the talk of it being an important movie for Black/African people, just how many strong women there were in the film. From T’Challa’s mother and sister, to Michonne to Lupita Nyong’o to all of the unnamed female fighters. All of them were far more impressive warriors than T’Challa or Killmonger.
The best two characters were T’Challa’s sister and Andy Serkis. Both of them made me laugh my arse off.
Martin Freeman was horribly miscast. His American accent was pretty appalling and although I might have accepted him as a diplomat/spy, he certainly didn’t come across as a badass airforce pilot.
Michael B Jordan (why when typing that have I only just realised he is called Michael Jordan
) was a great villain. A completely misguided arsehole, but you could see why he was the way he was and why he would attempt to take over.
Boseman was decent but was outshone a bit by the other cast members (other than Freeman obviously!).
I am looking forward to BP2.