Avatar: Fire and Ash is a beautiful waste of time

Rating: 1/5 Stars

​I am awarding Avatar: Fire and Ash a single solitary star solely out of respect for the overworked VFX artists. The technical rendering of Pandora's new volcanic regions is undeniably spectacular.

​Unfortunately, James Cameron has used this staggering visual fidelity merely as a high-resolution screensaver for a narrative vacuum. The film is a punishing three-hour ordeal with a plot thinner than the 3D glasses required to view it. The dialogue remains painfully wooden, the pacing is glacial, and the new "Ash People" are little more than a lazy palette swap. It is a billion-dollar spectacle that is entirely hollow.

Avoid at all costs.