Taylor Gino

Unfortunately I can only give this movie one star.. Here's why: The fight scene graphics, the human avatar interactions and the land scenes felt like they were video game graphics and unlike the first one you could easily discern the scene from reality. Even the scenes with humans and the natives in them you could tell it was green screen like effects by the depth and the shading on the characters. Yes I am aware that this is a movie and it is not real but we go to see this movie especially to take a trip to another reality that we want to believe could be true. This was not even believable of I was drunk. I will say this, the underwater scenes and closing credit scenes were superb and some of the night scenes were fantastically detailed to pure eye tantalizing satisfaction. I was under the impression that these avatar movies would be stand alone story lines. Besides the retreat to the water village the storyline itself was just a sequel with the same villain from the first avatar but in another form. This was quite disappointing for a movie that took 13 years to make. I remember when I left the theater after watching the first one I felt like I wanted to live in Pandora. It was so detailed and so bright and it played on all your visual senses to such a degree that after the movie my eyes took a while to adjust back to the dullness of reality. I expected that 13 years later the graphics would absolutely floor me, I was left wanting, I was left deflated. The storyline moved fast, in this much like many movies now the editing cuts out scenes that drive home the storyline amd allow for the small details including the subtle micro expressions on the faces of the actors to properly portray the dramatization of the emotional state of the scene. All I can say is I am disappointed in james Cameron, this feels much more like cashing in than it does changing the landscape and pushing the boundaries of motion pictures as he did last time with Avatar. 😨