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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 8824634" data-attributes="member: 63">I recall loving everything about the first Black Panther except for the action in the third act fight. Even then, the ending was great because Killmonger challenged T'Challa and inspired him to change his path.In Wakanda Forever . . . I liked most of the first two acts a lot, but I feel like the third act fell flat, both in the action setpiece and in the overall muddiness of Shuri's character arc. The only real change she undergoes is from 'not wanting to stop grieving her brother' to 'burning her funeral attire to symbolize that she is done grieving.' But that did not seem well-tied to the action of the rest of the movie. It seemed like the emotional core was going to be her anger at the world for taking her brother from her, and her anger at her society for expecting her to get over it and accept that he still existed spiritually, whereas she wanted to focus on science to solve problems. Something like that. And she finally does recreate the heart-shaped herb with science, only to experience the Ancestral Plane and meet Killmonger, who encourages her to go all in on anger, violence, and vengeance.And whoa, she goes for it.And then . . . the ending kinda doesn't fit together after that. There's a bog standard Marvel Action Setpiece, and Shuri winning but deciding for no real reason to turn from the path of vengeance at the last moment. And so Namor surrenders . . . even though his people were totally winning the fight against the Wakandans. It's a mess. It doesn't seem to be saying anything.I'd love to hear the director explain what he felt the point of the story was.The tributes to Chadwick Boseman were wonderful, for the record.</blockquote>

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