Avatar: The Way of Water 4K 2022

After assuming the avatar image, soldier Jake Sully becomes the leader of the Na'vi people and takes it upon himself to protect his new friends from self-serving businessmen from Earth. Now he has someone to fight for - with Jake his beautiful beloved Neytiri. When heavily armed Earthlings return to Pandora, Jake is ready to fight back.

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Without any lengthy introductions, let's get right to the point...the movie was a bit of a disappointment. That said, it can't be called bad, weak, raw, unfinished. It is what it is, with predictable weaknesses. But after 13 years away, I expected Cameron to do a much more thorough job on the scripting, dialogue, drama parts. He didn't.

The plot is superficial and the feeling that somewhere else has seen it. And seen not in the movie, but a full-length cartoon (no, not Pocahontas, at least I can not understand which one). Why a cartoon? The pitch is cartoonish. Banal, sometimes the most naive one-liners dialogues of children with each other and children with their parents make you regularly catch the very cringe, about which you so often hear from young people.

Not only is the dialogue weak, but some of the action sequences are blatantly copied from the first part. The water tribe princess teaching Jake's youngest son to pilot water screens, with an exact repetition of the phrases Neytiri used to tell Jake when she taught him to drive the usual flying cranes ('Feel her' and all that meaningful eye-closing in an attempt to mentally connect with the 'transport'). Then there's the water monster's chase in forbidden waters for all the same son of Jake and the attempts to hide among the rocks exactly replicate Jake's escape from the forest predator on his first foray into the forest thicket from the original film.

Quaritch is even more cardboard and formulaic in his anger than in the first part, but if in the first film it was in moderation and even gave him a certain charisma, here he looks caricatured in his already blue guise.

Some children's characters seemed frankly superfluous. Cameron's attempt to make Jake a father of many children and to emphasize the level of responsibility he is burdened with is understandable, but the youngest daughter was not necessary for the general plot line, and from the rest, only Kiri may be singled out as an interesting character.

Few memorable new tunes (or maybe I didn't hear it, having paid too much attention directly to the picture), but all that is memorable are more or less remixed variations of James Horner's masterpiece.

Perhaps this is a quibble, it will be curious to read other reviews, but I felt that the gluing of the various episodes in the film was not done to a high standard. The action feels like it jumps around in parts of the movie between locations and characters without logical transitions. The Harry Potter franchise suffered from a similar disease from about Part 5 to the end. Again, perhaps these are my overstated expectations, and upon revision some of the aforementioned drawbacks will fade away, but I couldn't help noticing, I'm writing hot off the press.

On the plus side, as always, the almost flawless picture and the successful second half of the film, in which it finally warmed up. The first, quite frankly, was already suggesting that the review would be red hot.

And despite the fact that they've had their screen time cut significantly, Jake and Neytiri are still the pillars on which Avatar rests. They are the ones who pulled out the last hour of this action.

Purely subjective: compared to the first part, the movie lost its, ahem, realism (the main character's problems, at least before the arrival on Pandora, seemed closer to the earthbound viewer, and again - more adult dialogues and forced a more serious attitude to what is happening) and somewhere brutality. It felt more like watching a Disney blockbuster than a Cameron blockbuster.

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Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (43.9 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: TrueHD Atmos 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English, French, Japanese, Spanish.

Avatar.The.Way.of.Water.2022.2160p.UHD.Bluray.REMUX.HDR10.HEVC.TrueHD.Atmos.7.1.4xMultiAudio-K4CLUB
Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (43.9 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS 2.0
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
Spanish (Latino): Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Japanese: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English SDH, French, Japanese, Spanish.