Avatar: The Way of Water is a movie with a predictable story from beginning to end, with only one real mystery that will most likely not live to the theories that are going to be created around it.
The movie is set ten years after the first Avatar, where we see Jake and Neytiri with their family. Not just their family, but those humans that had decided to stay on Pandora.
Ten years past and the humans are back, and it's in the first minutes of the movie that you immediately see the illusion that is the story that James Cameron tries to sell. Because had they done the smart thing, humanity could've taken Pandora with almost no effort. Everything else about the Na'vi putting up any fight, lies with the incredible convenience they can use any lifeform of Pandora to fight on their side. The story of this movie can be reduced to Cameron taking the occupation of North America by those of the Old World, and adding several convenient fighting options against the invaders.
Jake is the family man trying to close the holes in the dam with his fingers. Neytiri is either complaining, angry, complaining and angry, or showing she's no better than those she hates.
The journey and fate of their sons and daughters is just too predictable. To the point you get to not even half the movie, that is over three hours long, and you can already accurately guess who's going to make it or not.
There's really just one character that holds an interesting mystery. That knowing Cameron and what he did in this movie, we can already guess what the answer to the mystery is. At least I'm almost sure the answer is staring everyone in the face.
And of course because new enemies are apparently hard to make, Cameron had to come up with an excuse to bring back the old ones. An excuse that comes into conflict with another new miraculous resource unique to Pandora, as if Unobtanium wasn't enough.
The movie is mostly supported by visual effects, that are unsurprisingly some of the best I've seen on any movie. With an adequate but not at all groundbreaking soundtrack.
Thirteen years later and to see that story wise this was the best James Cameron could come up with, does show why Cameron said what he said about Terminator: Dark Fate. The story in this movie is nothing new, nothing never seen before, it isn't even that well executed. Considering Jake knew humans would of course come back one day, to see how surprised they were that the humans came back says everything anyone needs to know about this movie.
And with the exception of just one character, none of the old and new characters really saves the story of the movie. That I excepted a lot from.
Avatar: The Way of Water is a good movie, heavily supported by VFX. But story wise it's no Infinity War or Endgame. And if this is the best Cameron can do story wise, then any future sequel will have very little to stand on.
The movie is set ten years after the first Avatar, where we see Jake and Neytiri with their family. Not just their family, but those humans that had decided to stay on Pandora.
Ten years past and the humans are back, and it's in the first minutes of the movie that you immediately see the illusion that is the story that James Cameron tries to sell. Because had they done the smart thing, humanity could've taken Pandora with almost no effort. Everything else about the Na'vi putting up any fight, lies with the incredible convenience they can use any lifeform of Pandora to fight on their side. The story of this movie can be reduced to Cameron taking the occupation of North America by those of the Old World, and adding several convenient fighting options against the invaders.
Jake is the family man trying to close the holes in the dam with his fingers. Neytiri is either complaining, angry, complaining and angry, or showing she's no better than those she hates.
The journey and fate of their sons and daughters is just too predictable. To the point you get to not even half the movie, that is over three hours long, and you can already accurately guess who's going to make it or not.
There's really just one character that holds an interesting mystery. That knowing Cameron and what he did in this movie, we can already guess what the answer to the mystery is. At least I'm almost sure the answer is staring everyone in the face.
And of course because new enemies are apparently hard to make, Cameron had to come up with an excuse to bring back the old ones. An excuse that comes into conflict with another new miraculous resource unique to Pandora, as if Unobtanium wasn't enough.
The movie is mostly supported by visual effects, that are unsurprisingly some of the best I've seen on any movie. With an adequate but not at all groundbreaking soundtrack.
Thirteen years later and to see that story wise this was the best James Cameron could come up with, does show why Cameron said what he said about Terminator: Dark Fate. The story in this movie is nothing new, nothing never seen before, it isn't even that well executed. Considering Jake knew humans would of course come back one day, to see how surprised they were that the humans came back says everything anyone needs to know about this movie.
And with the exception of just one character, none of the old and new characters really saves the story of the movie. That I excepted a lot from.
Avatar: The Way of Water is a good movie, heavily supported by VFX. But story wise it's no Infinity War or Endgame. And if this is the best Cameron can do story wise, then any future sequel will have very little to stand on.