Avatar Fire and Ash review: James Cameron directorial is a gorgeous creation

Avatar Fire and AshUA Action adventure scifiDirector James CameronCast Sam Worthington Zoe SaldanaRating 3 starsAt 19721 minutes of running time mdash as per the Indian Censor Board certificate in the opening slate mdash James Cameronrsquos third Avatar titled Fire and Ash gets over at least 45 minutes before it finally endsWhich is to take away nothing from its emotionladen conflicting climax mdash while I worry for kidneysbladders of viewers in America England Australia or wherever else the movies play without intervals in theatres Indians are lucky that wayWhy the film carries on of course is not so much for the story mdash but to keep the prospect of incoming spectacle alive Yup a lotta films do thatBut but but mdash itrsquos not the same spectacle That too on the gigantic IMAX screen with the bestlit 3D projection and the finest contrast ratio I knowSure wersquove come to expect that from Avatar I must confess not entirely grown used to it still For if yoursquore a believer what would you consider such minute worldbuilding if not the work of God Cameron 71 behind the camera comes closest to it with cinemaSure wersquore aware of that as well To the point that one begins to feel the existence of stories itself is rather overrated when it comes to certain filmsThat said whatrsquos Fire and Ash about mdash given the first two Avatars really showed us the possibilities of greed and destruction if humans did discover a planet or the moon as beautiful as Pandora a century and some from nowItrsquos perhaps the rare franchise about aliens and humans in a state of war where you root for the extraterrestrials instead That pointrsquos already been madeMuch as you can belabour it beyond three parts mdash apparently there are three more on the wayAt least on the face of it Fire and Ash starts off with the lead couple Jake Sully Sam Worthington Neytiri Zoe Saldana mourning the loss of their eldest son You watched that death happen towards the end of The Way of Water 2022 You can feel the love between themThe dad Jake as yoursquod recall once humanSky Person now Narsquovi grapples with grief by simply keeping himself busy The wife on the other hand detests ldquopinkrdquo blokes mdash she ldquohates the insanity in their mindsrdquoAs in referring to us Or probably the yobro Americans in the film representing humanity as usual The line at the opening moments in the movie goes ldquoThe fire of hate leaves only the ash of griefrdquoThatrsquos possibly the most profound thing yoursquoll hear in a likely blockbuster thatrsquos more about the visuals than words But at least itrsquos not merely a deranged blastfest over gore and blood while wholly centred on setpieces of courseThe main conflict involves the young manSky Person named Spider Jack Campion who lives amidst the Narsquovi folk on oxygen cylindersHersquos the biological son of late Col Miles Quaritch Stephen Lang the enemy whorsquos returned in the Narsquovi form The kid is also the adoptedfoster son of JakeMiles and Jake if you recall were military colleagues once until the latter like a traitor chose the lovely Narsquovis over his supposed nationTo be sure Fire and Ash is far too mainstream in its storytelling for you to require a primer for a review As could be the case with say The Lord of the Rings trilogy if you walked straight into its third part when the Middle Earth will seem a complete mysteryDive right into Fire and Ash even if itrsquos your first Avatar instalment Itrsquoll be clear as Pandoran daylight that the Narsquovis are basically facing a fresh threat from their own clan namely the bitter Mangkawans introduced in this threequelThese are Ash people They form a coalition with the Sky People to attack Jake and his lot Varang Oona Chaplin is the feisty feline Mangkawan queenIrsquod still encourage you not to care so much for the detail No unobvious devil in it Yoursquod rather trip on the neon lights As Vadang and Miles do mdash as the queen gets the colonel to snort on powder so hersquos high enough to tell some truthsThis is the bit when I see a scroll on the big screen ldquoDrugs are harmful to healthrdquo No such Censor Board warning for the guns that follow Thatrsquos the one time I realised Irsquom in IndiaAt all other times with your eyesbody dipping under water where the lower edge of the screen is the brim or being engulfed by the fire as ashes meet ether mdash you knew you were fully inside Pandora where Cameron belongs So do weThe thought going through my head was how wonderfully the 3D has advanced since the first Avatar 2009The only fourth dimension possible is if I could literally feel the heat from the volcanic eruption or the cold of the oceanic waves Who frickinrsquo knows mdash maybe thatrsquos the future of screen that is

Avatar Fire and Ash review: James Cameron directorial is a gorgeous creation

Avatar: Fire and Ash
U/A: Action, adventure, sci-fi
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana
Rating: 3 stars

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Avatar Fire and Ash review: James Cameron directorial is a gorgeous creation

Avatar: Fire and AshU/A: Action, adventure, sci-fiDirector: James CameronCast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana Rating: 3 stars

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Avatar: Fire and Ash
U/A: Action, adventure, sci-fi
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana
Rating: 3 stars