After the release of the second movie of Avatar, there are two types of people, those with ” I loved Avatar, I can’t wait to see the second!” » and others who is saying « I didn’t like Avatar, is it worth seeing the second movie? “. Two scenarios, One answer: yes. Already because this second opus of the adventures of the blue men defending their planet against those from the sky is infinitely more thought out, developed, worked, brilliant.
Shorts about Avatar 2: The Way of Water
- Name : Avatar: The Way of Water
- By: James Cameron
- Release: December 14, 2022
- Type: theatrical release Nationality : USA
- Duration: 3h13 /
- COSTS: $250M
- Genre : SF
- Members of Casting: Sam Worthington , Stephen Lang , Joel David Moore , Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, CCH Pounder…
- Particular signs: Exceptional!
- Synopsis: Set more than a decade after the events chronicled in the first film, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER tells the story of the members of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their children), the trials they face face, the paths they must take to protect each other, the battles they must fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
OUR OPINION ON AVATAR 2
Come on kids, let’s stop having fun, and put away our toys, dad came home, and it’s time for the lesson. Lesson because yes, Avatar 2 is a masterclass. That of a James Cameron who, from the top of his soon to be 70 years old, has just instantly made all the young heirs of his cinema ringardiser.
We remember it like it was yesterday. December 2009, when the screening of Avatar came out , we were torn between wonder and melancholy. Wonder because the show was total. Melancholy because barely left, we had only one desire, to return to the beautiful Pandora.
It took 13 years for the dream to materialize. It was supposed to come out in 2016, then 2017, then 2018 and so on. Avatar 2 kept getting pushed back, because there was a delay in production, because there was competition from Star Wars , because there was the pandemic.
But this time it’s the right one. December 2022, James Cameron is about to write a new page in the history of cinema. Just that ?! Yes again. WithAvatar: The Way of Water , King Cameron comes to remind (if we have forgotten) how much of a genius he is.
A visionary genius, a visual genius, a storytelling genius. In short, the three fundamentals of this new Pandoran epic . In short, the three fundamentals of James Cameron’s cinema. Avatar: The Waterway is a great movie. A huge film even. The kind of absolute spectacle that writes in golden letters the word “cinema”.
We are faced with pure cinema, a film that brings together everything that makes the seventh art so fabulous when all the planets align. This magic power to carry the spectator far and elsewhere.
Far from his armchair, elsewhere than our world. For 3 hours, we traveled, we vibrated, we cried. In short, we enjoyed ourselves.
You have to face the facts, Avatar: The Way of Water is much more better than the first. The only thing it lacks, logically, is the element of surprise.
- First, there is the technique. This sequel thirteen years later is crazy, proof that James Cameron is still at the forefront of cinematic possibilities. He hoped to be the first to offer a 3D blockbuster without glasses. On this point, we will have to wait a little longer.
But on the rest, what a slap! What 3D especially!! James Cameron proves that it would be wrong to bury a technology that ultimately never managed to really impose itself over time. The maestro masters it with absolute grace.
The first minutes amaze as their immersive beauty serves the dive into the magnificent forests of Pandora. But the real tour de force will come later, when the film relocates its plot to the waters.
The sub and underwater 3D proposed by James Cameron is crazy, sublime, intense, of a staggering beauty. It serves an immersion like never before.
Especially when it is coupled with HFR (a technique that goes beyond the traditional 24 frames / second to give more fluidity to movements). The start is also disturbing and will require time to adapt to get over this impression of over-sharpness of the image, so perfect that it gives the visual an almost too “video” side, thus shaking the barrier that separates absolute realism from dreamy cinema.
Once the eye is used to it, so perfect that it gives the visual an almost too “video” side, thus breaking down the barrier that separates absolute realism from dreamy cinema.
Once the eye is used to it, Avatar 2 is a monument, a technical masterpiece that no longer offers to see a film but definitely to experience a film.
All the more so for the lucky ones who will have the opportunity to see the film in Dolby Atmos and who, in fact, will benefit from the impressive sound work that accompanies the visual magic.
A string of sequences leave the eyes totally wide open in front of a result that instantly takes 10 years ahead of everything that is done today.
- Then there is the staging. Cameron is a visionary genius but it would be useless if this ability was not associated with a real formal genius. And damn it’s beautiful! What a visual masterpiece! James Cameron still indulges in a pictorial poetry that is matched only in the boldness of the action scenes.
We were talking about a masterclass given by the director, she is as crazy as she is limitless. Avatar: The Way of the Water is breathtakingly beautiful. Each shot is a composition thought out over months.
The world of Pandora has never been so beautiful, whether on land, in the air or at sea. Because once again, James Cameron deploys an imagination teeming with ideas, details, finds.
An imaginary making Pandora a kind of lost paradise constantly animated by grace (and damaged by human greed).
But Cameron’s staging is not limited to a series of pretty naturalistic shots sublimating the Pandoran fauna and flora. The filmmaker demonstrates unfailing virtuosity as soon as his camera turns on.
- The epic scenes leave you speechless, the action scenes shine with their nervousness while the more intimate scenes rip your heart out.
- And finally there is the story. Some saw her as the weak point of the first Avatar , sometimes mocked as an alien Pocahontas .
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Which was false in itself because creating a whole universe is also part of a scenario and if the plot was simple in absolute terms, Cameron had been able to enrich it with an abundant imagination.
But let it be said, the scenario of Avatar: the way of the water is infinitely richer, dense and deep than that of its elder. More characters, more diversity in everyone’s plots, more issues, more depth in the humanist and ecological purpose, the story of Avatar 2 goes much further, well beyond what we had the right to expect.
With it, James Cameron recalls how much he is an outstanding storyteller.
It offers a gigantic journey, is based on an epic collective adventure, complicates interactions and personal trajectories, erases the impression of Manichaeism of the first, it develops a real fascinating subject on ecology, but also on the right to difference, family ties, humanity, xenophobia…
Avatar 2 is a narrative jewel, a complex blockbuster capable of fueling passionate debates on the possibilities it opens up for the rest of the saga and brilliant in its management of all feelings.
We worry, we have fun, we cry, everything happens in a total show crossing the whole spectrum of emotions with sequences of absolute wonder, spectacular action scenes of nail-biting intensity, and harrowing moments of the kind that tear your guts and heart out.
Because in addition to being denser and richer, Avatar 2 is also darker. Or let’s say that his ability to be brighter in certain areas finds resonance in his ability to explore terrible darkness.
The umpteenth proof of a brilliant film in its ability to do the splits with amazing dexterity.
Avatar 2 is a bit like the sum of James Cameron’s cinema, even a form of culmination of total show cinema bred with a deep declaration of love for the strength of the seventh arr.
Besides the numerous references to his past films, The Way of Water is a sort of conjugation, as if Abyss met Star Wars and Dances with Wolves . Grand epic (which has only just begun), Avatar: the way of the wateris indeed a landmark monument despite its easily forgivable small imperfections.
We only bend our knees in front of so much mythological and spiritual power, in front of so much thrilling generosity, in front of so many devastating emotions (damn it’s overwhelming!), in front of so much technical and artistic mastery, in front of such a degree of precision and stuff of the imaginary (one could almost miss a scene just because one is too busy admiring a fish or a luminous plant).
AVATAR 2: THE WAY OF WATER Trailer (2022)
This Review done By Nicolas Rieux
