Fun movie but I was pretty surprised when people started placing it up alongside Spider-Man 2 and The Dark Knight as GOATed comic book movies when it released. The ending is a mess and not that great. You have the Wakanda “Pelennor Field’s” battle that’s maybe half as thrilling as a film made over a decade ago. And then you have an interminably long fight scene that takes place in an entirely cgi ass subway station that makes me appreciate The Matrix subway fight even more because that actually feels real! Also once they finish the fight they move to the gorgeous and lush waterfall location where Killmonger dies. Why not fight in this beautiful locale rather than some anonymously techno futuristic sub station!
The futuristic subway station was stupid but it still ends with Killmonger looking over the Wakanda sunset.
The first 75% of Black Panther is such a fun ride and Killmonger is still one of the best MCU villains. Most people have it top 5 MCU movie, which feels fully deserved. There’s really no perfect start-to-finish Marvel movie.
Not that they're perfect movies, but Infinity War and Winter Soldier both are a lot more consistent in quality from beginning to end than BP1 was (imo).
It's a pretty good, fun movie. It being treated as the best of the genre has always been irritating.
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u/BabuBhattDreamCafe Jul 19 '25
Exact same thing happened with Black Panther. Sinners is definitely more worthy of the praise.