"Avatar The Way of Water" boasts dazzling visual effects... and sadly, that's the sole redeeming quality this film can muster.

The plot is a mind-numbing bore, following a shallow and predictable path from beginning to end. After about 5 minutes you know what's gonna happen in the rest of the movie. The theme revolves around the tired clash of nature versus technology (how incredibly original!), repeating much of the first film but worse. There are zero surprises or innovative or unique storytelling ideas. Instead, it's all just regrettably formulaic and unoriginal, failing to offer even a grain of depth, originality or wit.

Without exception, every single character populating the screen is cliché, boring, and flat: The hero dad, the rebellious son, the emotional daughter, the sadistic bad guy, and of course the unbearably constantly smiling (even under water) nature-loving savages ....

Wait, it get's worse! Because unfortunately the characters speak: the dialogue is so aggravatingly tedious and dim-witted, that it makes you want to innerly scream. The lines sound as if they had been written by dyslexic six-year-olds trying to sound cool ("yeah bro!"). Alas, throughout the entire movie not a single original or intelligent thought is uttered.

Scene after scene the audience is tortured by a slew of one-dimensional torrid mush, drowned in an overload of meaningless special effects... and to make things worse it's even really long at 3 hours runtime!

In Summary: Barring the big budget, this film would have struggled to rise above C- or B-movie rank. Save your time and money, avoid this film like genital herpes, and instead do something comparatively more intelligent or interesting with your life, like watching paint dry on a wall, or observing laundry tumbling in a washing machine...!