Alas, since this is a Marvel movie, it’s also required to work as a feature-length promotional reel for upcoming content both in theaters and on Disney+, including an entire backdoor pilot for the new TV series “Ironheart,” which starts streaming next year and stars Dominique Thorne as a teenage genius who builds her own Tony Stark suit.
To satisfy everybody, “Wakanda Forever” would need to work as both a wake and a new beginning, celebrating a fallen colleague while finding another way forward. It also saddles Coogler with impossible expectations. The film was frantically re-written after the death of star Chadwick Boseman from colon cancer in August of 2020, and the absence of King T’Challa leaves a sorrowful void at the center of the film. It’s a dutiful, mirthless movie derailed by a real-life loss from which no franchise could feasibly recover. Writer-director Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” unspools under a cloud, downcast and joyless. Carter in this rushed, yet endlessly distended sequel.
You’ll find no time to savor the sumptuous production design nor get more than a few quick peeks at the elaborate, peacocking costumes by the legendary Ruth E. Gone are the vibrant hues of Rachel Morrison’s cinematography that made 2018’s “Black Panther” such an eye-popping delight. Facebook Email Still from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." (Courtesy Marvel Studios)
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