It was a big challenge for Marvel to overpass the mediocrity of Captain America or Thor, but never underestimate Marvel, they always can surprise you!
A non-charismatic hero, a forgettable big vilain, a story already seen 200 times (except, they decided to be super original putting cousins where it usually is brothers)... The only interesting characters are the side characters: the king's sister, the chief of the montain tribe, the first (white) vilain. All the rest is easily forgettable.
A fairytale country in the middle of Africa nobody ever suspected they have more advanced technology than the Chitoris coming from outerspace. I mean how is it even possible than nobody knew anything about that country during the colonisation of Africa? Or they would have be colonisated by France, England, or whoever else, and so they technology would have been discovered; or the explorers and armies sent to colonise them would never have return and raise suspicions...
The vibranium is supposed to be the strongest metal, but apparently in its raw form it becomes unstable and can be used as a energy source... I know it's a Disney movie, and I understand now the origin of the fairy power from Peter Pan or the Sleeping Beauty.
The first story arc in the movie is just useless, Warmonger working with Klaue just to kill him later for no special reason, stealing an old vibranium tool from a museum while he knows how to get access to an almost unlimited amount of it...
The realisation is just awfull. The CGI is quite well done, as in most Marvel, but it would be the only good thing in the movie. The fight scenes are just meh compared to most modern movies. The music is incredibly bad and mostly don't fit to the scenes, I thought it was laughable to push tribal-ish music all the time mixed with more modern music just because it happens in Africa. I have nothing against African rythms but they simply don't fit in that kind of Western sci-fi action movie, or at least, not the way they did it. The movie is full of stupid and sometimes disturbing stereotypes. I felt sometimes offended about the vision of black people in this movie.
As a conclusion I would say Marvel reached a new low. The good point is that it should be very hard for them to do worse.
Review by Thibault RoméoBlockedParent2018-08-18T22:17:58Z— updated 2018-09-30T11:16:13Z
It was a big challenge for Marvel to overpass the mediocrity of Captain America or Thor, but never underestimate Marvel, they always can surprise you!
A non-charismatic hero, a forgettable big vilain, a story already seen 200 times (except, they decided to be super original putting cousins where it usually is brothers)... The only interesting characters are the side characters: the king's sister, the chief of the montain tribe, the first (white) vilain. All the rest is easily forgettable.
A fairytale country in the middle of Africa nobody ever suspected they have more advanced technology than the Chitoris coming from outerspace.
I mean how is it even possible than nobody knew anything about that country during the colonisation of Africa? Or they would have be colonisated by France, England, or whoever else, and so they technology would have been discovered; or the explorers and armies sent to colonise them would never have return and raise suspicions...
The vibranium is supposed to be the strongest metal, but apparently in its raw form it becomes unstable and can be used as a energy source... I know it's a Disney movie, and I understand now the origin of the fairy power from Peter Pan or the Sleeping Beauty.
The first story arc in the movie is just useless, Warmonger working with Klaue just to kill him later for no special reason, stealing an old vibranium tool from a museum while he knows how to get access to an almost unlimited amount of it...
The realisation is just awfull.
The CGI is quite well done, as in most Marvel, but it would be the only good thing in the movie.
The fight scenes are just meh compared to most modern movies.
The music is incredibly bad and mostly don't fit to the scenes, I thought it was laughable to push tribal-ish music all the time mixed with more modern music just because it happens in Africa. I have nothing against African rythms but they simply don't fit in that kind of Western sci-fi action movie, or at least, not the way they did it.
The movie is full of stupid and sometimes disturbing stereotypes. I felt sometimes offended about the vision of black people in this movie.
As a conclusion I would say Marvel reached a new low. The good point is that it should be very hard for them to do worse.