Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 4K 2022

After the death of King T'Challa, Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye, and Dora Milage fight to protect Wakanda from world powers.

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The film positions itself as a tribute to the now deceased Chadwick Bowsman. To a certain extent it pulls it off, they literally inserted real events that happened to Chadwick into the film. How good or bad that is is up to you to decide, I don't know.

They started developing the film while Chadwick was still alive, which means a lot has changed since his death. We had to rewrite the script, but not from scratch, because it would have been stalled for a long time.

Because of all the internal problems that befell the movie, you'd think it was bad and awful, but it wasn't bad.

But it was extremely boring.

I didn't like Shuri's character. She doesn't drag the movie at all, her full-fledged role that this character deserves is a minor one. Well, she doesn't really fit the main character. The first half of the movie feels like we don't have a main character.

I mean, there's not even any empathy, there's no emotional connection to the characters. Yes, they cry halfway through the movie about T'Challa's death, but there's nothing but crying. And that's the misery that goes on for most of the movie. Everybody's whining, crying, sobbing.

Then at one point they forget all about T'Challa, as if he never existed.

The first and second halves of the movie feel like they don't work with each other, like we're watching two different movies. At one particular moment the movie switches and that's it, a completely different story.

The main problem with the film, in my opinion, is Namor. Or more specifically, his conflict.

He has no one to conflict with.

Namor is a good character in terms of spelling. He has interesting dialogues, interesting motivations, interesting confrontation with the Wakandians/Vakandians. He could have had a good conflict with the protagonist, but there is no protagonist and because of that the interest is lost, there is no conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist, for there is no protagonist. The movie is boring to watch because of this. Shuri has her own arc, which they then try to merge with the original scripted arc for T'Challa.

In the end Shuri and Namor are just two characters fighting each other. Without any connection, no drama, no conflict, nothing. The movie goes on for three hours almost, but nothing really happens. It begs the question: Why have such a gigantic running time if you can't fill it with events?

The other characters are also trouble, some just disappear from the plot, only to return at the end. It feels like the writers stupidly didn't know what to do with the characters and just gave them a couple of scenes to have.

Bottom line is, what do we have? The film is just a tribute to Chadwick Bowzman, a bad tribute, the film parasitizes his death. The characters don't develop, there are no global changes.

This film is not worthy of closing an entire phase, it is a common passé, as was the first part. However, the first part introduced something new, while the second part, except for the leaked Nemor, does not give anything new.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (41.7 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
Spanish (Latino): Dolby Digital Plus 7.1

Subtitles
English, English SDH, Spanish.