Kevin C. Wong

Movie - Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) [/]

Avatar: The Way of Water is the first sequel to Avatar (2009) and set sixteen years later. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) are living happily with their kids when Earth forces return in force to colonize the planet. The second wave of forces include Na'vi versions of Marine Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and his men, who were all killed in the last movie. He's here to stop the resistance by killing Jake.

At the end of the first hour of the story Jake and his family are forced to flee and they end up with the water people who reluctantly take them in. The next hour or so is the family learning about the Way of Water and slowly integrating with their new tribe. This is hard for the kids as they're Na'vi-Human hybrids besides being air people but slowly they win respect from the other kids.

Then finally Quaritch finds were Jake and family ran off to so he sets off on a whaler to instigate incidents until Jake is forced to fight back. This leads to a big climactic battle that quickly becomes just Jake and family against Quaritch and his surviving forces. It ends on a bit of an interlude leaving threads open for the next film...

I watched this on my 10" iPad and the cinematography is pretty good though obviously better on a huge screen. It's a very long movie with three long parts and two distinct stories which leads to loss of focus. The last part is pretty exciting and almost makes up for the first 2/3rds of the movie. Overall I guess it's still a watchable movie.