The Avatar franchise has always fascinated me with how much emphasis - and money - has been put into the special effects, while the narrative remained a poor man's Pocahontas, at best. In James Cameron's third installment of what will likely define his filmmaking legacy, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri's (Zoe Saldana) Na'vi tribe faces an adversary very much like their own: a tall, skinny warrior-shaman female named Varang (Oona Chaplin). Varan's tribe joins forces with Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang, who seems destined to be this franchise's Darth Vader like re-occurring villain), and together, they put a cramp in Sully's - and the human colonizers' - style.
Avatar: Fire and Ash is the most action packed of the series' movies yet, featuring a final battle on water (reminiscent of the previous installment's finale) and in air that is breathtakingly beautiful in all its clash-filled glory. These movies may go down as the most expensive ever, and it's no wonder: every frame has been rendered and processed countless times, until the final result is primo eye candy. I was less excited about this franchise after 2022's Way of Water, but am more hopeful to see a fourth part in three years' time. Fingers crossed that 20th Century Fox executives still deem its astronomical budget to be worthwhile.
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