Let me preface my comments by saying that I am High Functioning Autistic with an encyclopedic knowledge of film. Avatar: The Way of Water is nothing more than eye-candy for the less discriminating. Let me be clear, I am not denigrating anyone who likes this movie but for me it is nothing more than a recapitulation of the first film ramped up by a factor of 10. Sure it introduces other pieces of the ecology of Pandora, but I was already bored out of my mind within the first 25 minutes of the film with more than 2 1/2 hours to go.

Sure it picks up some years after the first film but even the visuals for me, while quite beautiful in some instances are totally illogical and the physics of it do not make any sense. Some scenes seem to exist merely for the visuals and impart little to the story. Those scenes just come across as unnecessary. Which inflates the film beyond its capacity to sustain it. It is a clear case of a one cubic meter container trying to contain 110 cubic meters of nonsense.

Somewhere slogging around in this conceptual mess may lurk an actual good film, but what I saw was not only boring beyond belief, but it took ages to get to any real substance. This is not good filmmaking or storytelling. Mr. Cameron needs to take his hands off the film during the editing process, something he is clearly unable to do given the length of this film (and there are two more to follow?).

The story was slight to start with and like a bad writer he continues to flog at a slim ecological disaster scenario without really offering up any new take on it. Come on James!

I realize I am jus one viewer and my opinion is just that and will probably have no resonance with the masses, but this is not a 7 Star movie by any critical standard at my disposal. While I enjoyed the first film somewhat, this and subsequent films set on Pandora should be a big miss for anyone looking for logic, good storytelling, and true emotional involvement.

Nice try, but I expect more from my movie experience than this delivers.