By Jake Persaud ‘23
After a long 13-year wait, James Cameron’s new film Avatar: The Way of Water hit theaters December 16th. I was able to catch the movie opening night and after watching it, the film blew my mind.
Avatar: The Way of Water follows Jake Sully and his wife Neytiri after the events of the first film. In between the two films they have children: two boys named Neteyam and Lo’ak, a daughter named Tuk, and their adopted daughter Kiri, who was born of Grace Augustine’s avatar (Sigourney Weaver’s character who died in the first film). The children befriend a boy named Spider and he is treated like family by everyone except Neytiri, who doesn’t care for him since he is human and not their biological son. Spider is the son of Stephen Lang’s Colonel Miles Quaritch, the main antagonist of the first film who was killed in battle by Neytiri. In the film, Sully leads the forest Na’vi until the humans, or “sky people,” return to take over Pandora. The Sully family is forced to travel to another Na’vi colony and find refuge there to eventually face the bad guys once again.
The first Avatar amazed me for a multitude of reasons, but the success ultimately stems from the visuals. No other film had ever featured such mind blowing visuals and effects until Avatar. The 4K remaster was stellar in IMAX 3D, enabling fans to return to Pandora the way it was intended to be seen, especially since it included select scenes at a frame rate of 48 frames per second. The new film features many scenes with a frame rate of 48 frames per second, even more spectacular visuals, and out of this world effects in IMAX 3D. Like the first one, the plot was average but the visuals were what made the movie memorable.
Avatar: The Way of Water is a film I would definitely recommend to people, and I would suggest they see it in IMAX 3D so that they can get the ultimate experience of the film.
Avatar: The Way of Water is in theaters now.