Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

  • Released: 2022-12-14
  • Runtime: 192 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure
  • Stars: Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Giovanni Ribisi, CCH Pounder, Joel David Moore, Matt Gerald, Trinity Bliss, Britain Dalton, Jamie Flatters, Jack Champion, Filip Geljo, Duane Evans Jr., Chloe Coleman, Jemaine Clement, Ava Diakhaby, Edie Falco, Michelle Yeoh
  • Director: James Cameron
 Comments
  • benzapp-1 - 16 June 2024
    Incredibly boring. Special effects on par with video games
    Amazed by the reviews here. The story couldn't be more boring. Same old oppressor/oppressed nonsense. The story is so incoherent, I can't even figure out what the sky people are all about or why they are on the planet of blue people. Even more confusing is the sky people are also blue. The special effects look like a video game. Nothing seemed particularly interesting, and like the original film, the blue people just aren't rendered in a convincing way. All the time watching it I wondered why 15 years was an inadequate period of time to improve these special effects. The movie did make me think about a beach vacation, and I eventually just pulled out my laptop and priced out trips to Hawaii or Cabo...
  • lesimobil - 25 May 2024
    Great visuals, bad movie. 3 hours long techdemo basicly
    Sorry, but this film is disastrously bad. The visuals are impressive, but we've seen this 10 years ago, and in 10 years this film will be no different. Everything else is a disaster. Specifically every twist and turn is predictable, disastrous dialogue, completely inconsistent character behavior and clichés. Every single minute is a goddamn cliché. "Avatar 3-4-5....". James Cameron should now retire with dignity based on this "experience". Just because he comes from a drop of water falling on a cgi creature's head doesn't make a movie good. Shame. Oh yes, the first avatar wasn't original either, but at least it was well put together with all the elements. Watching the same thing a second time is just boring.
  • saalpalv - 7 April 2024
    Individualist garbage
    First movie had philosophical and ecological richness, interestingly enough millions were spent to reduce it to a depredator/prey drama.

    At least the movie retained the anti-capitalist core seen on first by making humans the antagonists, however most of the ecological and materialist foundation is gone, with a few exceptions.

    First movie had a holistic sense, showing different groups with their complex relationships and perspectives, however on the second film focuses too much on Jake ignoring the richness from other characters, which leaves a mediocre character for Jake by making incapable of doing anything but running away from problems, it leaves the feeling that the character Jake forged on the first movie is lost and a cry baby is left instead, which is part of the individualistic decay of the movie industry.
  • shreeresh - 13 January 2023
    Visual Spectacle
    AVATAR is a visual masterpiece from James Cameron and lives up to the hype and expectations. The Story is pretty very much predictable but the visual elements hold the viewers experience together.

    The underwater scenes are a treat for the eyes and one will get immersed in the experience and become a part of the fantastic fantasy world that James Cameron creates. Acting by is good, Sound design is fantastic....to capture and create underwater sounds is a great technological achievement for the AVATAR team. The length of the film was the only down sider for me, however one may argue that it was necessary to keep the audience in teh fantasy world and feel a part of it.

    Overall must watch for the experience.
  • JR22-72485 - 13 January 2023
    A worthy sequel, that's not quite better than the original
    Avatar: The Way of Water is a really amazing movie that has some really not amazing plot/story/writing parts. Overall, I think I liked the original Avatar better, especially in theaters as it evoked so much more emotion and feeling in me, however, the final/third act of Avatar: The Way of Water is some of the best I have seen in a while.

    The cons in this movie are kind of obvious. There is a sort of hasty exposition in a way, but it instantly pulls us all back to Pandora. However much of the exposition, and some other events/things in the plot are unexplained and just happen. There are also a few things that happen that only occur to make something else occur down the road and then are never mentioned again. I wish they could have spent a little more time setting up the actual story/beginning, but overall it isn't too bad. There are also a few odd dialogue decisions specifically with Spider, whose dialogue is quite poor, and he isn't a great/interesting character as a whole. One last thing is that one of the 'good guys' dies, and it is the character they spent the least time developing overall, so the emotion and sadness you're supposed to feel isn't that strong.

    What I really loved about Avatar 2 is I was always having fun, and I always enjoyed it. I felt invested into the story and I was amazed at the beauty and emotion on screen. Personally, I loved bringing back Sigourney Weaver as Kiri and she was probably my favorite character. I also enjoyed how time was spent developing almost every character we see onscreen and seeing them at their best and worst. I understand that we all expected a movie centered around Jake and Neytiri, and it is at times definitely their movie, but I think that it's more the kids, and at times the Colonel's movie and really about them as people.

    Avatar: The Way of Water is an amazing, fun, and exciting movie with beautiful technical aspects, that at times struggles with poor writing and set-up. While it doesn't quite live up to the first, this is more than a worthy sequel that is truly enjoyable and has one of the best acts in years, while also setting up what should be a really good Avatar 3. Definitely necessitates a rewatch!
  • gabrielemorra - 9 January 2023
    Wonderful underwater visual effects but half of movie lost in battle
    This could easily have been James Cameron masterpiece, as the progress done with underwater 3D special effects, creation of new creatures, absolutely perfect realist beings, dynamics, etc. It is stunning and the part where Sully family lives on the islands and learn the new near water world is pleasant to see for adults as well as for children. But then literally half of the movie is lost in an incredibly dull and boring bottle between the "good guys" and the "bad guys", which is so against the point made by Pandora's people during the entire movie.

    I just ask myself why it is so. I believe that the producers of the movie planned to spend so much money that they believed that by turning it into an action movie would have assured success. But honestly, I think they missed their chance. A lot of people went to see it, sure, but how many will see the follow up? So many, like me, were so bored by the story that they will not. They have just been shortsighted by their fear of creating a better story.
  • danielliachenko - 9 January 2023
    Beautiful disaster
    The story was a perfect example of zero creativity. It was pretty much a recycled version of the first movie. Even the same villain. With no expectations whatsoever I was so excited to watch it, and it end up being a huge disappointment. The story is confusing and poor. So in the first movie humans come to Pandora because of unobtainium and now there's a new whale juice and it's a completely different reason? Also they were weirdly focused in killing Jake.

    I'm giving it a 3 because visually, the movie is amazing and you can just watch it without sound and probably it will be a better experience.
  • witchiegurl - 9 January 2023
    Don't take your kids to see this movie
    This is not a movie I would recommend for kids. I was very disappointed in the story. The graphics and 3D were good, but the story itself was near impossible to sit through. It shows humanity at it's worst. The whole thing from beginning to end was heartbreaking. There were little spots where it was cute, but I had a really hard time sitting through the destruction, violence and horror. No one wants to a beautiful world get destroyed by greedy humans, killing innocent children, and innocent animals. This was horrific. It was depressing the entire time. It never lets up, and in the end the main bad guy lives while innocents die.
  • matthew-desfosses - 8 January 2023
    Visual arts make the movie
    Overall the movie was decent in my opinion. The visual arts definitely make it worth watching in theatres. The story line was unfortunately similar to the first one, mainly depicting and criticizing the imperialist mindset of the Americans and the use of force to obtain what they want through war. Story and war aside, movie is beautifully shot, acting was good, and the film is consistent at showing cutting edge visual creations and the use of water. I left the theatre with an appreciation for the creativity more than anything else. It's a long movie, could have been shorter for the story line.. however for the beautiful cinematic experience it felt like the right amount of time.
  • Anunnaki_Utu - 8 January 2023
    Visually Stunning
    Title says it, an absolutely incredible CGI film, hands down, no question the camera panning/angles made the water scenes truly spectacular - a must see in 3D. So why the mediocre rating? As a movie, not much of a story at all, very predictable and everyone knows what's coming next. The attempt at a plot twist with Spider and his dad was seen coming a mile away. The obvious references to Mad Max (monkey boy), Ahab and the White Whale and Titanic (even parts of the soundtrack)... kinda stomped out any creative progress. Then things like, ok, everyone can hold their breath and distance swim... so why head back into the sinking ship instead of just swimming under the fire in the water? Oh yeah, so the mystical child who is obviously a child of Eywa, could amaze us all with her powers. I really like Avatar 1, nor so much for Avatar 2. Yes, glad I saw this on the big screen for all the dazzling eye candy, would not pay to see it again and not even interested in streaming it when it becomes available. One and done.