"At over three hours, you will have time to quietly mull geopolitics, as well as holiday plans, meeting schedules and recipe ideas," joked Danny Leigh of the Financial Times. Others took issue with the film's length. "It's a leap beyond even what pulled off with the first film, a phantasmagorical, fully immersive waking dream of a movie in which something impossible is happening on-screen at almost every moment," he said. "The story, cooked up by Cameron and a four-person writing team, is a classic piece of franchise-elongation, in which nothing meaningful happens or important changes, and all the pieces are returned to their original positions, ready for the next instalment," he said.īut Empire's Nick De Semlyen took the opposite view, awarding the movie five stars and describing it as "thunderingly entertaining". In a one-star review, The Telegraph's Robbie Collin suggested watching the film "feels like being waterboarded with turquoise cement". In The Way of Water, viewers are transported back to the planet of Pandora, where the existence of the Na'vi people is once again under threat. The Way of Water is the follow-up to 2009's Avatar, which remains the highest-grossing movie of all time.ĭirector James Cameron has suggested the sequel needs to become the fourth-biggest film ever just to break even. While some said it was "dazzling", others described it as a "soggy, twee, trillion-dollar screensaver". Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Collection ChristopheL via AFPĪvatar: The Way of Water has received mixed reviews from critics, with ratings varying wildly between one star and five stars. Filmed mostly in New Zealand, Avatar: The Way of Water is being released 13 years after its predecessor.
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