For starters, Angela Bassett, as Queen Ramonda, is a powerhouse. Coogler is much more focused on telling a story about the emotions that drive violence, not the violence itself. While the action is top-notch, and we finally get an MCU film without extensive questionable CGI, Wakanda Forever doesn’t lose itself in it. At the same time, Namor (Tenoch Huerta) brings a new problem to their doorstep. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
Facing personal grief, we see how each character endures that while facing the real external threat of outside nations wishing to exploit and take Wakanda’s resources.
In this film, Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira), and the Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba) fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. A follow-up to Black Panther, the world it finds itself in is forever changed, but not by the Snap as we’ve seen in previous films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but by personal loss in a more intimate form. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is directed by Ryan Coogler and written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole.
