 Alright guys, it is that time, it is that time for my most anticipated film of 2018. You already know what movie it is and I'm so super duper excited to talk about it. I finally can talk about it and now that I can, you're probably wanting to know, is the movie any good? Does it live up to the hype? Is this movie the best movie in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe? Well let's get into it. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. What's going on guys? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Black Panther. I really do appreciate it. But before we get into the review, let me, I want to let you know that this is a non-spoiler review so you don't have to worry about spoilers. I will be coming out with that review later so just rest assured I am not going to spoil anything for you. But before I get started, go ahead and help your boy out by clicking that subscribe button. Also click the little bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and give me that thumbs up. Let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes. Oh actually, let's see if we can get it to 1,000. That would really help me out. So you know I was really lucky. I was able to see the film early. They gave us these little Black Panther pins right here that I think is pretty cool so you can check that out. I don't know if you can see that. Also we got these nice little IMAX posters and that's pretty cool. I'm probably going to get this framed and hang it up in my hallway because I love that a lot. But you know guys Black Panther, I really have been looking forward to this movie. Not only is this my most anticipated movie of 2018, it is my most anticipated movie in my entire life. I have never looked forward to a movie more than this for obvious reasons and those obvious reasons is you know we may have had a Black superhero before like Blade and Spawn and Hancock and things like that. Me as a Black man living in America, I've never had a predominantly Black cast like this with such a large budget at minimum of around $130 million. And so you know going into this my expectations were super high. I was also besides me being very excited I was very scared and I was very nervous. I was like man this movie cannot suck please I don't want it to suck. And you know I always like to be honest with my reviews and you know if it does suck I'm going to say it sucks but guys rest assured I'm not even going to waste any more time. I'm not going to lead into it. I mean this movie was freaking amazing. I loved it. It was pretty much everything that I wanted it to be and slightly more and I really cannot wait to see it again and again and again and I really can't wait for everybody to see it again because this movie is like a true triumph. It is a true marvel even though this you know pun intended you know with this being a Marvel Studios movie. This is the 18th movie in the entire in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and whether it is the best or the favorite of course I would touch on that you know towards the end of this review but I pretty much loved it. There is pretty much nothing that I can complain about and you know I just want to go I just I just had to let you know that early on. Now this movie is being directed by Ryan Coogler. You probably already knew that written and directed by him. He also did Fruitvale Station and also Creed and so he has a great track record and I can honestly say that right now you know he is three for three and I can't wait for him to come back and do Black Panther 2. I don't know if he's already signed on without a line but after seeing this movie I cannot imagine that he will want to choose anything else. I'm also excited because this after seeing this movie I know it's going to make a ton of money is going to make one billion dollars easily. That's just I just know that the question is is it going to make one point five and just how great the movie is you know you probably said OK Brandon it's not going to make one point five billion dollars. Oh I don't know if you've seen the movie comment below if you haven't. I mean it's just that good. There are going to be tons and tons of repeat viewings and with this movie being the 18th in the Marvel Cinematic Universe one of the things that I really did like about it is you probably heard this before from other people but this really is a movie that it stands on its own and is nothing like any other movie that came before it that is in the MCU. That is possibly the best thing about it and with it standing alone it really does embrace the blackness. I mean like blackity blackity black I mean like I mean I'm proud to be a black man but after seeing this movie you know right now when I was watching it I was smiling ear to ear just geeking you know like a kid at Christmas or I'm going to get my ice cream cone seeing the movie and right now I already on top of being proud to be a black man I'm even prouder because I mean that's just how I feel and that's just how everybody in the movie was portraying themselves and their character in the storyline and everything that they were trying to protect and they just love dearly to them you know and that's just something that I really I really respect so I mean this movie just like just the tone of it it stands alone nothing like it has ever come before it looks different it feels different it really feels like a place I mean this is a set in a fictional country in Africa Wakanda but it actually did feel like a real place and that's just another thing that I really like about this movie is like the world building there was a scene at the very beginning that did have a lot of significance to it but at the same time I was just looking at it just kind of saying okay you know this has some significance to it I wonder if this is going to come back around circular back around later and make a more valid point and it did and out such a net but it's like one of the just like all the little details that goes into this movie like the subtitles they will use like African subtitles or a language that I've never heard of before it then translated on screen into English and that just along right there the small details set it apart from anything else and just kind of just you know sucked you into the movie because you're just like when you're watching it you just like man I want to know more I want to learn more what is this you know secret Wakanda nation all about what are the secrets what are the jewels you know I want to know everything I wish there was like a giant textbook you know that I can learn and read more I mean and that's the thing you know that is fake you know that is fictional but you still want to know more about it and like something else just like all the pride that they had in this movie I mean from the from the cinematographer who is Rachel Morrison who worked on she worked on dope and mutt bound dope is a movie that came out a number of years ago and mutt bound came out on Netflix and Netflix original last year that had to do with black people at the end of World War two when it was coming back but Rachel Morrison she is a fantastic director of photography she's a fantastic cinematographer all the colors in this movie pops less like pop crazy out of nowhere it was just like there was a rainbows all over this movie just from the mountains the grass the hill tops the sky the mountains nighttime sunshine costumes all that good stuff weapons it just all look beautiful like inside of mountains there was like never a point in this movie to where there was not anything bright and colorful to look at that you're just smiling about and that's just something that you really never ever got in all the other Marvel Cinematic Universe films and she also got the help from Ruth Carter the costume designer in this movie I mean seriously I wish the costumes in this movie were just so dope I wish that I could just go and buy them at a store right now I mean they were a good like four or five six seven outfits that I will rock in public with no shame at all just like you know yeah look at me baby I know I look good because they really did look good in this movie especially like Ramonda who is being played by Angela Bassett just seeing her her costumes as the queen with her beautiful nails and her beautiful dress and like you know her beautiful hats and hair dresses and you know pieces and things like that I mean I love that all I love like their I love their royal clothes I love their dress down clothes I just loved everything about it from the you know the costumes and like I said the cinematography all that was freaking fantastic it was great I love the history that was set up in this movie as well in this film as well it does have a deep historic lore to it that kind of shows how Wakanda started and just kind of how all the five tribes in this movie I mean you have the royal tribe or the royal palace you have the Jabari tribe that hangs up in the mountains you have the river tribe you have the mining tribe and you also have the border tribe and all these tribes have a really distinct way of living and they're all different but they all really do respect each other this is not a movie just with senseless infighting in between tribes there is a little infighting but the thing about it is you completely understand you know why they are fighting briefly amongst themselves if you've seen Captain America Civil War you know unfortunately to Chaka he died he met his demise the actor playing him is John Kenny and this movie picks up like right after that you know what I'm saying and so like the whole nation is just like oh we don't know what to do who is just gonna you know take the throne now and then the way that they told the story you know as far as that concerned I loved it and I'll come back to story in just one moment but speaking about John Candy something John Kenny excuse me something that I really press me and if you go back to uh there was an interview with him on the on the rare corporate or in this case the purple corporate at the world premiere that was like a week or two ago and he brought up the fact that he was like okay when he was in Captain America Civil War he went over to the directors uh John and Anthony Russo was like hey look I know this is a fictional nation Wakanda but it's in Africa predominantly the whole thing is in Africa the whole thing is a Wakanda if I'm an African king and you know my son is an African prince are we gonna be talking English the whole time why am I gonna be talking English to my son that really doesn't make sense and so what they did in this movie and you know and in that movie you know he had them actually speaking a real South African language and they did that too this movie is not just in English it's predominantly in English because I mean that's just the way it is with Marvel and them trying to cater over because this movie was made in the States it's been put out worldwide but still I think you get the point I'm talking about they really do use a real South African language called East East and they are known for their distinctive clicks you know if you want to just say the the the vows is and and they use that in this movie a lot and you get subtitles and it's not confusing or anything like that you know you can keep up with the subtitles but I like that they had that level of authenticity in the movie and really just pays a lot of respect you know to the African culture that is you know on a different continent than I am right now and so that's just another thing that I like another thing that you know they was just paying respect to you know I'm not deep within my African roots but at the same time you know I am black and that is just something that I do appreciate and also them just wanting to put on the forefront because this movie also does address a lot of political issues that are not just in a fictional comic book that actually have to do with the real world that we live in today right now in 2018 and 1900 and you know a hundred years before that you know it deals it deals with all of that and so for them just to have so much pride and just like no I mean other parts of the world were colonized you know by other people other groups of people he's like no we're going to you know stay deep rooted you know in our culture and that's just something that just really made me smile when I was watching this movie. Something else that really just blew me away is Wakanda is a fictional nation I've said that like seven times but it is the most technological advanced nation in the entire world and when I was going into this movie I knew that I know a little bit about Black Panther I haven't read every comic book but I know that but I was still just blown away but with all the features and secrets and the level of technology that they had I was like man wow this is freaking amazing like I was just blown away just like like all the little gadgets they had just I would have sent them myself man I wish I had this little gizmo that little gadget this little tool right here this little resource even though you're going in knowing that they are technology that technologically advanced more than everybody else you're still going to be blown away by all the technology and it's just something that I'm like thinking about right now just geeking out just like man I cannot believe all the stuff that they had in this movie. Something else that blew me away was the scenes at the waterfall that was very beautiful as well just seeing all the different tribes up on the mountain and the way they pay respect to their culture and I'm just going to get to story in just a moment but something that really just stood out to me there was the level of fighting the fighting in this movie is done pretty well um especially early on in the film doing these scenes at the waterfall where they're trying to where someone is trying to necessarily take up the mantle of the new king they did that very well that was like freaking perfect one of the other things that I liked in this movie so much that was you know top-notch music in this film was freaking fantastic the score that was done by Lugwit Gorsin who also worked with Ryan Coogler in the past I mean he really knows what he was doing everything was popping I was loving every moment of it and also the soundtrack that was done by Kendrick Legumar you know that was fantastic as well if you have not bought the soundtrack please buy the soundtrack you will not uh you are not regretted it was freaking amazing that's just something else that I like and also this movie is not a comedy I wouldn't say that at all but there are a lot of funny moments in this movie seriously coming from certain actors and actresses that I wouldn't even expect you know some and also uh something when it comes to comic book movies or really just any movie something that's really difficult for me or a task that's difficult to pull off in the film is combining comedic moments and also serious moments and they did that very well especially from Letitia Wright going into this movie I was very skeptical of her I wasn't feeling her necessarily in all the trailers but she was actually one of my most favorite characters in this movie and I loved everything about her Black Panther himself Chadwick Boseman T'Challa he was freaking fantastic as a leading man I mean we've seen him Mr. Baachbeck and uh get on up we've seen him in 42 we've seen him in uh you know he made his debut in Captain America Civil War and he was also an instrument I loved him as T'Challa his acting was great I felt him when he was you know feeling prideful as the new king of Wakanda and I felt him in his low moments as well I mean like I felt his pain I felt his frustration I cannot wait to see what he's going to do next after this besides like Avengers Infinity War and you know Black Panther too I mean I already loved him as well before you know he also did a great uh he also did a great job at Marshall but he even did a better job on this um Lupita Nyong'o as Nikia she was freaking fantastic you know what's up my beautiful dark chocolate sister you are beautiful um I loved everything about you in this movie as well she is a spy that goes off in different parts of the world and comes back and reports to uh reports to Wakanda just so they can make sure that they stay on top Daniel uh Denied Guerrero you know Michonne and the walking dead who plays a Coye she was freaking badass as well she is somebody that you do not want to mess with she will kick your ass and laugh at you when she's done with it I mean she was very powerful in this movie and I'm really you know glad to say because you know not only are they're powerful but you know Black women in this movie but beautiful you know dark chocolate sisters too and just you know me growing up in America not everybody felt this way but I do know how you know how it was for some you know uh dark skinned women and some of the things that they had to just grow up with you know and I can't speak on other parts of the world but I can't speak in this country here and I I can understand a lot of the frustrations they had and you know the the mental constraints that they had growing up so to just see these two beautiful women on screen also uh Florence what is the name Florence Cuyumbe uh who plays Ayo and she's part of the Dormalaje as well I mean her and uh Denied Guerrero are part of the Dormalaje they are like the warrior guard for Black Panther the way they were depicted in this film is just fierce warrior women that are are not you know taking no crap out of nobody that will freaking thrash you if you just cross them or even look at them a certain way very strong beautiful powerful women in this movie and I loved it I spoke on Ramonda played by Angela Bastion she did a great job Winston Duke as Mbaku in the comics he's known as Mbaku the man ape but of course they tried they took the man ape part out of his name because they didn't want to be offensive and you know I completely understand that you know he's great in this movie too Daniel Calula as Wakabi I loved him Sterling K Brown I loved him also uh uh wasn't a force Whitaker as Zuri I loved him too I mean you know there was no performance in this movie that that was this not top notch I mean there are so many great things about this movie these characters and everything I'm pretty sure that this movie is going to be uh nominated for Oscar on some levels whether it's the score the soundtrack whether it's the cinematography or um maybe adapted screenplay or I'm sorry original screenplay or costumes or something like that there was just so much good in this movie that you know cannot ignore there has to be a dress uh Andy Serkis as Ulysses claw he was a badass villain he was freaking crazy he was nuts when he was on screen I was like oh my gosh you know we gotta stay away from this guy um I love pretty much everything that they did with this character except for this one little tidbit thing that I will touch on in my uh spoiler spoiler field review that's going to come out later on this weekend uh I want to wait a little bit before I do that give it a uh give us some gap but I want to wait on that and of course I wanted to say this for last but Michael B Jordan as Eric Killamonger man this dude people are saying that he is the best villain in the whole MCU since Loki you know he's even higher than that Michael B Jordan is the best villain in this movie now I'm sorry Michael B Jordan as Eric Killamonger is the best villain in the entire MCU hands down he is so much better than Loki and I like Loki he is so much better than Hella um um uh Robert Redford and Captain America won a soldier and better than everybody else like seriously this dude like they always say that a good villain is somebody that thinks they're right and not only does uh Eric Killamonger Michael B Jordan think that he's right in this movie he is right on a lot of fronts like I agree with a lot of his points I empathize with the dude and I sympathize with him and everything that came out of his mouth was right he is frustrated he is angry he is like man this is a bunch of BS man what the hell are y'all doing and I'm just sitting there like bro I understand where you are coming from and the way that this film addresses like you know going over to the story now the way that the film addresses you know black people around the world it touched me right here it touched my soul because I I agree with it I can relate to it I don't want to say anything because I don't want to ruin it for you and I'll talk about that in my spoiler field review but when Eric Killamonger was on screen I was like all a little terrified I'm like dang this dude is serious you know he is way he you know you see it in the chart is like I've been waiting on this my whole life and no this is mine I don't want the throne and I do not blame him he is a freaking great villain and you know I sided with him like I cannot stress enough I sided with him you know he was right on so many fronts I can say that you know too I'm blue in the face I mean I understand where he's coming from and there was just within the story there is so much conflict in this movie and I I mean I see both sides of it this is not just some stupid playground in fighting in between tribes everybody is fighting for a valid reason and you know some people may not know what I I agree with this side I'm not agree with this side equally the only thing I don't agree with necessarily is the methods that possibly Eric Killamonger would have took Michael B. Jordan would have took to get the goals that he want accomplished but at the same time you know I do understand where he's going from going going through and then also going back to Chadwick Boseman T'Challa Black Panther just the arc that he had you know he's trying to get advice you know he's a good man you have to be a good king as well and just that that balance that he has to find between the two of those and very important roles is very hard and he's like should I follow the path of my elders my old ancestors or should I you know do my own thing like Nikia brought up in the chair like hey you get to choose what type of king you want to be and you know he chose that and just the way that this film addressed you know everything in the movie it just really just spoke to me now I don't want this review to be too long is this movie perfect okay is it a 10 out of a 10 perfect no it's not it is not a perfect 10 out of 10 and I'll talk about my little nitpicks now now I didn't read any reviews going into this movie but I did catch a few of them on YouTube because I just couldn't help myself I was just so excited but there was uh you know Andre the black nerd uh you know I watched his review and one of his complaints in the movie was he didn't like the pacing in certain parts and that honestly didn't bother me at all I had absolutely no problem with the pacing at all I thought that that was perfectly fine what bothered me was while the story was great and the characters were great and the world building was great and the music and the costumes and the cinematography all that was perfect what bothered me was the action now the action was not bad the action was good but it just did not pop off the screen the way I necessarily wanted it to and when I said the action I mean the very end scene the third act that action scene it was a great action scene and it was a real choreograph but there was a ton of CGI and just kind of like the balance between the CGI and the real life acting that was going on the screen it didn't mesh well um necessarily for me the best now the action like all the little baby action scenes in the beginning like in the casino or when they're doing the car chasing black parenthes on the car or when they're doing the fighting 101 doing the waterfall trial oh that was perfect I loved all that that was very well choreographed but I remember when I saw Captain America Civil War the action that move I was like oh oh oh check oh oh I was doing all of that I was not doing that in this movie and that's perfectly fine you know I just cannot come I cannot honestly walk out of this movie and just be like man the action from top to bottom was freaking badass and da da da da I mean it was good guys it was great I'm not crapping on it but I just wish that it would have been a little bit better but really that is my only complaint I really don't have anything else to complain on I freaking love this movie I cannot wait if you want to see this movie please see it on the biggest screen possible I saw it on IMAX I saw it in the real IMAX theater because some IMAX theater was a lot of you and said that it's really IMAX but it's not but I saw this on a real IMAX screen and so see this on the loudest biggest screen as possible that you can I freaking love this movie I cannot wait to see it again and I cannot wait for everybody to see it either it's going to make a ton of money if I had to rate Black Panther out of a 1 out of 10 I would give this a 9.25 out of 10 yes a 9.25 out of 10 but guys that is just my opinion have you seen Black Panther were you lucky enough to see it earlier do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going to keep it flowing if you like this video go ahead and give me a thumbs up and if you don't that's fine go ahead and subscribe to my channel go to my website check me out there book market and also look me up on social media facebook instagram and twitter all that good stuff is right at the bottom of your screen and I made it very easy by providing a link to all that good stuff there in the description box below but guys I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Black Panther written and directed by Ryan Cougler starring Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa Black Panther man I can't wait to see this movie again and before you go don't forget then my name is Brennan Keith-Avery and that's just my opinion peace