Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

[HalfGlass]

I loved the movie after going in with very tempered expectations since it seemed like more of the same based on the trailers. That ended up not being the case for a majority of the run time in my opinion thankfully. But man, the last act felt like I rewatched Way of Water. To the point I was actually in slight disbelief that they really didn’t try to do anything unique or different.

Spoiler

My partner made this point that if the films finale was set at the RDA HQ during the rescue mission, and they somehow worked in Varang playing Quaritch to take down the humans and dominate Pandora with their human weapons, it would have been a far better finale and I completely agree. Have the ending be the humans versus the Fire Clan with the Sully family and a few others from the Water Clan caught in between. God it screams missed opportunity to me.

 

[belloq87]

The first 90ish minutes of this are excellent.

I was a bit underwhelmed by the second 90. Needed to use Varang (awesome character and performance) and the ash clan a lot more.

 

[Jerroddragon]

I enjoyed this one more then the last one

My only real thing is these are too long for me to enjoy....and I feel like the next one will be even longer

I think the new villain is great and they made all the characters mostly more interesting but just....find a way to edit this down or make a TV show

But I'd watch this over the second film...which I forgot about the whole third act until I watched a recap...I thought the second film ended with the water battle

 

[OLSinFLA]

There were far more emotional beats in this film, juggling stories of racism, hope, grief, redemption and acceptance along with all the usual kablooey