Avatar: The Way of Water - Review - The master of seconds
THE WATER!!
Avatar is back again to take you back to Pandora, the planet of the blue people, the na'vis are here to show you the Way of Water.
James Cameron's sci-fi epic is here to engulf you in an adventure of exploration, action, love and family. The film is phenomenal and breathtaking. To give you a basic plot without spoilers, there isn't much to spoil.
Jake and Neyitri are living a blissful life after sending the humans back to Earth from Pandora, with a family of 4 consisting of two sons, a daughter and an adopted daughter who came out of Grace's avatar, living their life to the fullest enjoying in the forests. But then the "sky people" or humans come back because of which the na'vi have to make a rebellion who stops humans from taking resources from the forests. Humans revive colonel Miles Quaritch in the form of a na'vi by giving him his memories and personality and also some other military people who worked with Quaritch. Quaritch is given a mission to capture or kill Jake as he is calling problem for humans missions. After a brief action rich encounter between Sullys and Quaritch, Jake makes a decision to disappear from the forests as Quaritch is hunting the Sullys and decides to go live with the sea tribe, Metkayina to protect his family. After which they are shown to learn living like the sea people and we are shown the beautiful sea world of Pandora. During this Quaritch is finding them and eventually finds them and the final struggle as how the Sullys fight Quaritch and his people which is filled to the brim with action.
The story is amazing and has a heart as big as Cameron's ambition for this. The pacing is really good and at no point it felt stretched or elongated, it lets you know the characters, sea, Pandora and especially the water. As big as the first film was, Cameron took the story to a smaller scale of family and love towards them. He is able to craft an incredibly heart felt adventurous family drama in the big setting of Pandora. The character motivations were logical and the storytelling was amazing.
Now let's discuss the most mesmerizing part of the film, the CGI and the Water, the CGI is definitely stepped up from the first film. The water is breathtaking, it just was water at no point in the movie I suspected the water to be fake, you just can't distinguish it and the interaction between the characters and water is absolutely fantastic. I was just at Pandora, didn't even think once what was real what was not. I wanted to carefully examine the CGI and see flaws but it just took me to experience the way of the water with the characters and engulfed me in the clear and depth rich world of the water. You can read more about the CGI in this article In the break I even got the thought Cameron and team just went to another planet to shoot this, it was just that good. It was a theatre experience like no other.
The score and sound design is also really good and works well with the film, it works really well to heighten all the emotions, whether it be relaxing, action or just exploring the water.
The performances by the actors were outstanding and the emotions hit right at the heart, the feelings came through efficiently and didn't get lost in the CGI. Especially the performances by the child actors was really good.
James Cameron is one of the most talented directors working today, and his ambition to the craft is extraordinary. To fulfill ones vision one would wait till the technology is developed but Cameron just makes the technology, from the CGI software in Terminator 2 to the motion capture technology in Avatar. He just can't be stopped from fulfilling his dream. If you look at his career, there just no bad movie. No one makes blockbuster movies on the scale as Cameron and I can't wait for more Avatar.
In short, Avatar : The Way Of Water was fantastic, an engulfing experience taking you to Pandora, it wets you (pun intended) in emotions and in the visuals, it might be the best blockbuster I have seen in recent years and one of the best theatre experiences of my life.
I’ll give it a 9/10.
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