We went to see the Black Panther sequel a couple of days back, having enjoyed the first one. Sadly we didn't last beyond half way. Like a lot of modern films it was overlong, and more to the point individual scenes were stretched out. I got fidgety during a particularly poor CGI car chase, which had little in the way of advancing the plot and I found utterly disengaging. My Mrs asked what I thought, and I returned a "so so" gesture so we remained but a little later we were about to be faced with a huge exposition dump, and my Mrs, thankfully, asked if I wanted to stay, and we binned it off. If it had been on telly I guess I'd have left it on whilst reading a book or whatever but it was just dull and poorly done overall. Plus points - it looked great, the cast were all pretty good, script less so, but the storytelling was ponderous and laboured, and just having a load of CGI doesn't make a pointless car chase worth watching. We weren't expecting Citizen Kane or Seven Samurai, just a couple of hours of low-brow fun on a wet Sunday afternoon, so it was very disappointing.
