Black Panther Reviews: 12 Early Reactions You Need To See

5. It's Like Nothing Marvel Have Done Before

As Marvel have already proven with the likes of Ant-Man, Doctor Strange and the genre-bending Thor: Ragnarok, the studio has an agenda to broaden its spectrum of films as much as possible. That's the foundation for where we'll go in Phase 4, but it's good to hear that Black Panther is genuinely the unprecedented release it always looked like.

Too often, Marvel films are accused of playing their greatest hits over and over and conforming to an assumption of what all of the fans want all of the time. That sort of mentality would limit innovation and creativity, but it doesn't sound like it's accurate in the case of Black Panther.

And that's very exciting...