Black Panther

28 January 2019

Black Panther 2018

• Director: Ryan Coogler
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B Jordan, Lupita N’Yongo, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whittaker, Andy Serkis
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Chadwick Boseman – Fringe
• Michael B Jordan – Fantastic Four, The Wire, The Sopranos
• Lupita N’Yango – Star Wars the Last Jedi + The Force Awakens,
• Danai Gurira – The Visitor
• Martin Freeman – Shylock, Fargo, The Hobbit etc, The World’s End, Hot Fuzz, Breaking and Entering, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Shaun of the Dead, The Office, Love Actually, Black Books
• Daniel Kaluuya – Doctor Who
• Letitia Wright – Humans, Doctor Who
• Angela Bassett – Akeelah and the Bee, Music of the Heart, Contact, Strange Days, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Malcom X, Boyz n the Hood
• Forest Whittaker – Arrival, The Butler, The Last King of Scotland, Repo Men, The Great Debaters, Smoke, The Crying Game, Bird, Platoon, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Andy Serkis - Star Wars the Last Jedi + The Force Awakens, The Hobbit etc, Brighton Rock, King Kong, 24 Hour Party People, Topsy Turvy, Prince of Jutland
• Why? Recommended by friends
• Seen: 26 January 2019      

       The small isolated African kingdom of Wakanda has a secret history. It’s populated by people with superpowers living in a fantastic super high-tech city. Their king has been murdered and the prince T’Challa, Black Panther, (Boseman) is about to ascend to the throne.

       His beloved Nakia (Nyong’o) wants Wakanda to share its wealth and technology with the world and start refugee programs and grant foreign aid. T’Challa is afraid the kingdom will lose its power if the world learns of its true existence.

       Villain Klaue (Serkis) has stolen the technology that makes Wakanda great and is planning on selling it to the Americans.

       How can the peaceful Wakanda stop him? Well, with the help of the better-than-James-Bond-toys invented by T’Challa’s little sister Shuri (Wright), technical genius and head of the kingdom’s technology department.

       It’s visually spectacular, funny and exciting with an appealing cast, especially Wright as Shuri. The story is rather complex with enough historical and political message to make it, well, cool.

       It’s a very cool film.

4 * of 5