Of course the 3D effects are good here, although I prefer the original Avatar. There's something about the new version that seems too clinical visually. There is a story but it doesn't grab the viewer. When watching this 3 hour epic I found myself wondering how much longer it would drag on. The biggest problem for me was the lack of real actors. Of course the voices of prominent actors were used but in the original Avatar film the viewer could actually see most of them. In "The Way of Water" we see mostly computer generated Avatars. After a while this becomes boring because these creatures look very alike.