Unlock the Ultimate MCU Power Ranking: Which Marvel Movie Truly Packs a Knockout Punch?
Black Panther was a breakthrough, even for the MCU. The first Marvel Studios film to ever be nominated for Best Picture, which says so much just for how far these movies have come not only since the MCU started in 2008, but even from movies like X-Men in 2000 and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man in 2002. And Black Panther lives up to that hype.The movie re-teams director Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan, who isn’t the hero here but rather one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s very best villains in Erik Killmonger. The hero, of course, is the late Chadwick Boseman, who so perfectly captures the humble confidence of T’Challa. The rest of the cast is also just ridiculous: Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Letitia Wright, Daniel Kaluuya, Sterling K. Brown, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Forest Whitaker, among countless others. And the movie also has some of the very best action sequences—the fight in the Casino that leads into the epic car chase with T’Challa on top of the car is amazing stuff. It’s just a well-made, well-rounded movie from top to bottom that means a lot for the present and future of this massive franchise.
MCU understanding needed? None. A few references here and there to Captain America: Civil War, but you’ll be OK without anything else.
7. Iron Man (2008)
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