Director: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet
Movie Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
What Leo thought: The movie picks up less than a month from where 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water ended. We see Jake and his family fighting once again against the sky people and the Colonel that wants his revenge.
In this movie we learn the existence of a brand new clan of Na’vi, the Mangkwan clan, and Jake has to team up once again with the Metkayina to try to overcome the attack from the military as well as the Mangkwan.
For some reason this movie does not look as good as the last movie in terms of CGI and graphics, almost like the graphics department didn’t spend as much time this time as it did with the last movie.
Maybe it was the showing that I witnessed, but it looked like a video game cutscene half the time, and that lack of quality really brought me out of the movie. It made me feel like I was watching a video game and not a movie even though I did see the movie in 3D DBox XD.
James Cameron is the master of 3D and I feel like anybody that is going to make a 3D movie should take a master class how to make 3D movies from him, because this movie is amazing in 3D, and I will go as far to say that if you watch this movie not in 3D, you are truly missing out.
Now something that is also not advertised is that James Cameron is also releasing this movie at a higher frame rate, so it will appear a lot smoother because unlike traditional movies which are filmed using 24 frames per second, about 40-50% of this movie was filmed at 48 frames per second.
Now the movie is definitely entertaining and I actually enjoyed it a lot more than the previous movie from a story perspective. And while this movie only takes a few weeks to a month from the second movie, the fourth movie will take 6 to 8 years from the events in the third movie. And the fourth movie is scheduled to be released in 2029.
Varang, the leader of the Mangkwan clan (newcomer to the Avatar movies, Oona Chaplin) had great chemistry with Colonel Miles Quaritch (played once again by Stephen Lang). Their sexual tension was my favorite arc of the movie, they both want to take over the planet, and they had this great chemistry and sexual energy that radiated off the screen. Sometimes the addition of a new character to a franchise does not always work out but in this case it was one of my favorite arcs of the movie.
Leo’s rating: Overall I give this movie a B+.
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