Admittedly, I only watched this movie because it was on my list of Oscar winners for 2019 (best original score, best production design), not because I am a fan of superhero movies, but I still harbored the distant belief that it might be a hidden gem in disguise.

Unfortunately, it was only a fraction of a percent better than Suicide Squad, which was also diabolical, for a number of reasons:

The plot! So Africa has a super-advanced country hidden under the forest that no-one knows about, which is able to make incredible alien technology beyond anything ever seen before, without any ability or need to import raw materials to build production plants and laboratories, including Apple-esque glistening-white research centers?

In fact, I am more angry about watching this film today then I was yesterday when it finished.

And the totally embarrassing scene in which the white man was not allowed to talk in the company of the "ape king", which I quote from another character, including ape chanting and stomping sounds, which was supposed to be funny? It was horribly embarrassing, and I can only deduce that this scene was included for cheap laughs in the black community, much like the cheap laughs in The Patriot against the English 'tyrants', although The Patriot wasn't a totally bad film.

It's quickly becoming the same old scenario in modern-day superhero movies: everything seems made up as it goes along because it can be hidden away behind special effects.

And I totally get the need for black inclusion, which is one of the reasons I watched this movie, but it was instead patronizing to black people and included inverse and bizarre racism and parodies as well, causing Black Panther to badly misfire alongside its dull plot.