Do I think it's a waste of time? Yes. Does my brain hurt after this? Yes. The VFX is AMAZING, so I guess here's 5 stars, which is below average if you think about it. This is such a cis white male's messiah complex (maybe less so than the first movie), but there do be one point that makes the series unique: humankind, in general, is the actual (one dimensional flat) villian here. Genuine kudos to James Cameron for being brave enough to do this in front of an earth full of human. But this also puzzles me, in the sense that the hero of the movie, being an avatar, is essentially an immigrant on Pandora that fully outgrowed his past identity as a human. Even though this is purely fictional, people would inevitably think of its real-life parallel. And if you stare at this parallel long enough, you will start to feel uncomfortable about what potential messages the movie might carry.

Here are some notes I made during my first (and only) watch: