Earlier today, I watched the latest Marvel flick Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at AMC theaters.
Once again directed by Ryan Coogler, Wakanda Forever was just as action-packed as the Oscar-nominated 2018 film Black Panther...but far more emotional as it acknowledged the unfortunate real-life passing of Chadwick Boseman two years ago by dealing with the untimely off-screen death of King T'Challa early on in the movie.
Like the first Black Panther, Wakanda once again had a stellar cast in Letitia Wright (Shuri), Lupita Nyong'o (Nakia), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Winston Duke (M'Baku), Martin Freeman (Everett Ross) and Angela Bassett (Queen Ramonda). Joining this stellar group was Tenoch Huerta as Namor, the Feathered Serpent God, and Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, a.k.a. the future Ironheart.
Despite the pre-release marketing for Wakanda Forever, I think it should've been common knowledge that Shuri—King T'Challa's sister—would become the next Black Panther. Which she did! However, I was hoping that Nakia would follow in her late boyfriend's steps instead, but that was not the case.
(I might also be a bit biased against Shuri due to Letitia Wright's pandemic-related controversy last year.)
Wakanda Forever did a great job humanizing Namor, the king of the underwater nation of Talokan, and rationalizing his motives for why he would seek war with the "surface world"...and Wakanda in particular. (If an alloy like Vibranium—which can't be discerned by metal detectors—existed in real life, that would have huge repercussions.) It will be interesting to see him appear in future Marvel flicks, as Black Panther will return.
Wakanda Forever also paved the way for Ironheart to be featured in her upcoming Disney+ series, which debuts online in late 2023.
So all-in-all, Wakanda Forever is the latest high-quality installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
And to top things off, the mid-credits scene in this movie showed how T'Challa will make his comeback in the future! The downside is, the story's timeline would need to jump ahead at least 15 years to make his return feasible... We can wait.
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