Black Panther 2018

   I missed seeing this in the theater last year.  After reading much hype I net flixed it and watched it.  Meh.   Opening credits scene showed a cool metal armored riding rhinoceros.  Never did see it in action in the movie but it looked cool in the credits.   The hidden black African kingdom of Wakanda needs a new king.  Wakanda possesses lots of high technology, anti gravity stretchers, Millennium Falcon style aircraft, futuristic cities and more.  The plot is obscure.  Many of the characters speak an African language which I don’t understand.  I never did catch the stage names for any character.  If the hero had a love interest it was never clear which chick it was. 

   The hero must win the kingship thru single combat with someone else.  This happens out doors in a small river leading to a mighty waterfall.  Of course, I expected the loser to get thrown down the waterfall.  Well that didn’t happen, this time.  Hero gets the crown, rules for a while, then suffers a rematch at the waterfall some time later.  This time he gets thrown over the falls.  He survives, and makes a comeback in the last reel. Not clear how. 

   The cast is all black, Wakanda is black, and Marvel ran Black Panther comic books for years.  That was after I had given up comic books so I missed out on much of the background of the movie.  Needless to say black fans just loved this movie. 

   Me, not so much.  They had Darkman working the camera giving us a lot of pure black scenes with only mumbled dialogue to clue us in.   Since the cast was all black, nothing showed up in the dark scenes. No even an eyeball.  At least in Game of Thrones you could see a white face or two barely visible in the black.