BlackPantherWakandaForever Review: A Fitting, Ambitious Tribute To An Icon BlackPanther WakandaForever
Few blockbusters have been as closely scrutinized as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. As the sequel to a groundbreaking, award-winning movie, the stakes were already incredibly high. Then, the unexpected and tragic passing of lead star Chadwick Boseman in 2020 shifted the plans for future Black Panther movies completely.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Save for its emotional opening, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever picks up one year after the death of T'Challa, Boseman's towering Marvel hero. In the time since his passing, Queen Ramonda has taken charge of Wakanda while Shuri has thrown herself into her work in the hopes of arming her beloved homeland more than ever before.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever introduces two major Marvel Comics characters to the franchise, Huerta's aforementioned Namor and Iron Man successor Riri Williams . Both performers sink into their roles right away and cement themselves as welcome additions to the MCU. Huerta especially proves to be one of the franchise's most compelling antagonists, lending Namor a layer of charisma and sympathy that, for a time at least, is hard to root against.
This is largely because Coogler moves between epic spectacle and quieter, contemplative moments with ease. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever falls just 20 minutes short of three hours, and that runtime comes down to how Coogler lets certain moments breathe rather than trying to rush through them. Of the action set pieces, Talokan's invasion of Wakanda is perhaps the standout, raising the stakes while eliciting genuine frissons of shock.
Marvel's Phase Four has been somewhat controversial online, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will no doubt lead to debates. It's an MCU movie bursting with ideas, brilliant callbacks to the previous film, and piercing expressions of grief. After spending several movies diving into the multiverse or traversing the far reaches of space, the MCU has now offered one of its most poignant stories yet, and it largely pays off. Audiences will likely cheer and cry in equal measure.
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