Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

The three stars out of 5 that I (barely) gave this movie is entirely due to the scenery, special effects and the action. The rest is meh, at best. First of all, a lot of the movie is really a rehash of the second movie. Sure, they throw in the Ash People but the rest is to a large extent very similar. We’re back to the RDA hunting the Pandora version of whales again and of course the attitude of these “whalers” are so over the top and unrealistic that it really drags down the movie. It was the usual big companies are bad stereotype taken to new levels.…

Even Shakespeare's Polonius complained to Prince Hamlet that the traveling actors' Greek Tragedy speeches were too long -- and over four centuries later there is still something to be said about testing audience patience. Cumulatively, audiences have had to sit through over 9-hours on James Cameron's Pandora in his AVATAR films -- with its mind-blowing special effects about the indigenous Na'vi trying to preserve their way of life from intergalactic colonialism hellbent on exploiting their resources. This isn't quite as brutal as Leopold II's actual…

78/100 Pretty much culminates in a 5 army war between the Omatikaya forest tribe & Metkayina reef tribe, the Tulkuns, the Ash tribe and the Sky People. At well over 3 hours long, I'm happy to say that the pacing was awesome and they did not waste a minute. Although there was obviously plenty of eye candy, focusing on the story, the individual drama, the politics and the rising war was a welcome change to just staring at a pretty screen. The action sets were fantastic and exciting and I loved every character in it. Finally, looking forward to more…