Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
Rating: M
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is the 3rd Avatar film,
and seems quick after ‘The Way of Water’ from only 3 years ago, but a trilogy
over 17 years is quite spaced out compared to most. This is an almost immediate
sequel to the previous film and follows Jake Sully (Worthington) and Neytiri (Saldana)
and their children Lo’ak (Dalton), Kiri (Weaver), Tuk (Bliss) & Spider
(Champion) as they grieve the losses. They’re still with the sea people (Curtis
& Winslet).
Much like ‘The Way of Water’, Quaritch (Lang) is still alive
in a Navi body and still hunting the Sullys. We have lots of recurring
characters – Norm (Moore), Garvin (Clement), Scoresby (Cowell), Selfridge (Ribisi),
as we spend a bit of the film in the human settlement. However, the main plot
follows Varang (Chaplin), a sort-of-witch who leads the Ash/bad Navi and aligns
with Quaritch to hunt the Sullys. We also have more of the whales (“Tulkun”),
which is both happy and sad. Good to see Clement’s arc, and he almost gets some
jokes in.
While it feels a bit like déjà vu, as there’s lots of
similar beats to the previous film and the ending of the first ‘Avatar’, it
still looks great with the CGI once again top-notch and the score and further development
of most characters, particularly their kids, is good. There’s a few new creatures,
and while it’s long at 3 hours 15min, it was engaging and draws you back into the
world of Pandora effortlessly. I just hope we get to see a resolution to the
Navi vs human conflict at some point.
Overall: Great to see in IMAX & 3D in Melbourne
Gav’s Rating: 3.5 stars
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