The reviews for Black Panther are all essentially saying the same thing: This is a great movie because it's so different from anything we've seen before, not just in the MCU but in the superhero genre overall, the villain is fantastic and Black Panther is just a new and totally innovative film. Allow me to disagree (almost) entirely. Black Panther is a great film, not because it breaks the mould, but because Marvel Studios has a successful pattern and Black Panther adheres to it completely. Obviously the importance of a lead who is not just black but actually African is not to be understated, we have the least white cast of any superhero movie to date and they absolutely killed it, all very important socio-political stuff, to be sure. But the bones of Black Panther, the plot, the script, the events, the turns, all of that, it's a carbon copy of what's worked 17 times before. It works again, don't get me wrong, Black Panther truly was an experience, both important and fantastic, but to say it re-invented the wheel here, is, to me, an outright lie. Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time.