Apparently $350m buys you a poor story, cardboard antagonists, super dumb protagonists, and a good/average 2022 effects. Rarely entertaining, never challenging, and wildly predictable, I can't imagine recommending anyone put their three hours into this.

Seriously, how many times do we need to see the exact same bad choices happen, with the exact same results? Sixty-ninety minutes of this should have been left on the editing floor. I don't know what happened to James Cameron in the late 90s, but he hasn't been up to his standards since True Lies.

Full disclosure, I thought pretty much the same thing about the first (except the effects were ahead of the curve, at the time).