AVATAR: FIRE AND WHAT TIME IS IT?

I feel as though Avatar: Fire and Ash could have told the same story in about an hour to an hour and a half. 

Truly stunning effects, as all the films have been, really! There is no denying that it is very beautiful. However, with a bloated runtime of a staggering 3 hrs and 17 mins, half of this movie is filler and really just drones on. The Avatar movies just bleed into one another for me.

Quaritch gets laid, immediately paints his face, and ditches pants as if all those years of him being the most "Sky Colonel" of "Sky Colonels" meant absolutely nothing.  Her Na'vi, let's just be polite and say, "magic cave" must have been packing some serious juju or made of solid "Unobtanium". Because Miles was ready to risk it all!

As with The Way Of Water, Sigourney Weaver, a 76-year-old woman, voicing a fourteen-year-old child, works about as well in practice as it seems it would. Which is to say, not very well at all. It takes you out completely. You are painfully aware the entire time, and you are unable to believe this is a child. It comes off as creepy. The purpose behind it is understandable. However, no matter how high-pitched you make your voice, a person with the combined wisdom and life experience of almost eighty years cannot fake or act their way into the innocence and naivete required for a young girl. It's just weird, man.

The premise felt repetitive, copied and pasted from previous chapters, and I left feeling like Cameron is just beating a dead Pandora with this storyline.

Again, it is visually one of the most beautiful films you will see. But, much like a sweet, shiny piece of candy, there is no real substance to it. Two hours of this film or more are filler, dragging the film on at a snail's pace, forcing the audience to tune out and check the time.

Avatar: Fire And Ash in Theaters Everywhere!