Michael's Movie Grade: F
Another terrible film from this overrated franchise.
Making it through all 3 hours and 15 minutes of this movie is a pure endurance test. This movie not only has a long runtime, but it somehow feels even longer. There were many moments here that made me ask myself, if the movie would ever end. The middle section of this film in particular seems to drag on forever. Despite the larger-than-life visuals and an action-packed climax, this film commits the cardinal sin of the movies. That is to say it is simply boring. Frankly I would rather sit through a movie that is incompetently made than one that is just simply bland. And that is all Avatar: Fire and Ash is. I rarely find my mind wandering off when watching a movie in a theater but that happened very often here.
The characters are all lacking in any sort of personality and there are simply too many of them for any to stand out. The villains are especially bland and forgettable. The screenplay also takes what should be a rather simple story and fills it up with too many subplots. This is done to the point that none of them can be fleshed out enough to make them interesting. Sometimes plot points and characters reappeared that I had completely forgot existed. The screenplay is also full of some of the worst dialogue I have heard in a mainstream franchise film. The dialogue is often too on the nose, spelling out this film's very obvious messages, or trying too hard to be funny and/or hip.
The action-packed climax is quite dull for something that is done on such a large scale. Not only this but it simply repeats the climax from the previous film in many ways.
Even the visuals in this movie don't really offer anything that the previous two films didn't. Some of the scenes even have a strangely jerky feel to them that makes them feel more like video game cut-scenes than something that is meant to be shown on a big screen.
This is a pure snooze-fest.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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