Avatar: The Way of Water
December 14, 2022 in theaters
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.
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"The way of water has no beginning and no end."
DID YOU KNOW?
The film took over 13 years from Avatar's release to reach theaters -- Cameron spent most of that time developing new filmmaking technology.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
A sequel thirteen years in the making that deepens the Pandora mythology at the cost of narrative economy. The underwater sequences are the film's technical achievement -- sustained and genuinely immersive in ways that justify the production's scale. The family dynamic gives the film more emotional texture than the original, and the whale-like Tulkun are the most fully realized new species in the franchise. At over three hours it asks patience the story does not always earn. A film that demonstrates what the technology can do while still leaving the question of where the story is going for a future installment.
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