Swerve Strickland: Wakanda Forever Was Solid But Didn’t Pack A Punch

Swerve Strickland and Monteasy review “Wakanda Forever.”

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has cleaned up at the box office, earning over $500 million worldwide. Audiences and critics have enjoyed the film with an 84% tomatometer and a 95% audience score.

Swerve Strickland and Monteasy do not agree. Potential spoilers are below.

On the latest episode of the Swerve City podcast, Swerve and Monteasy gave their review of the film.

“They told a great story, to me, it was a good film. I’m on a roll, the last two podcasts, I’ve been getting a lot of Fightful Select news, this might be another one. It was cool, it wasn’t better than Black Panther. For many reasons. It did have the impact, the full punch that I wanted. We’re in Phase Four, we’ve seen so many Marvel movies,” said Swerve. “I’m not going to punish it. Of course it went through re-writes, it had a whole big missing part of the movie that it had to workaround and I thought they did that well. It still didn’t pack the punch that it needed to for me, but it was still a solid film.”

Chadwick Boseman, who played Black Panther, passed away from colon cancer in August 2020, changing the original script for the film.

Monteasy said the film could have waited another year, to which Swerve agreed.

Monteasy gave his review, saying he caught about 96% of it, implying he was bored and passed out for the other 4% of it.

“The story was all over the place. The scientist, she was in one part, next thing you know they’re cutting over to the villain. Not a lot of character development. The movie is two hours and 45 minutes, I wish they took more time to develop these characters. M’Baku was weak. He was weak. Beat up the Black Panther, now he see the avatar dude come out the water and he don’t know what to damn do. He’s all weak as hell, getting his ass whipped,” he said.

For the record, Monteasy’s kid enjoyed the film.

This could further explain why Keith Lee decided to leave Swerve alone at AEW Full Gear in their match against The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster).

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