Review of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) by Giustoper — 17 Dec 2022

People who can ignore the huge flaws in the story (which is not only simple or trivial but totally ramshackle) are lucky, because they will be able to enjoy Pandora without too much worry. The effect I received for 95 percent of the film's running time was much like that of a TV department in an electronics store: lots of visual quality, lots of fish, lots of water, but no credible story to hold up the images, no characters to really empathize with except for Jake's two sons who occasionally, with their “bro", managed to squeak out some feeling in me that could break the apathy of a film with an 80s script that was caricatured and almost identical to that of the previous film.

The story is didactic, explicit, always guiding you as if you were a 5-year-old child who constantly has to be told what is happening and what emotion he should feel. The problem is that if you are a bit of an adult with a handful of good films behind you, you understand that this story, once you understand it, falls apart.

Good 3D, nice photography and direction, but is not enough to consider this a memorable movie or a masterpiece. From the soundtrack, I expected a few more winks.