“‘The Way of Water’ has a way of pulling you in, surrounding you with gorgeous, violent chaos and finishing with a quick rinse to get the remnants of its teeny-tiny plot out of your eyes by the final credits,” writes Tribune critic phillipstribune.
Its protagonist, Jake Sully, who joined the Na’vi against Col. Quaritch’s genocidal security forces sent from Earth, was protagonist enough. Barely.
Stephen Lang’s Col. Quaritch may have died in the first one, too, but his evil memories have been inserted into a security team “recombinant.” Now, his undercover team of fake Na’vis are out to avenge the insurgency spearheaded by Quaritch’s old nemesis, Jake. Cameron fills three hours of screen time, with another 10 minutes or so for credits, with what feels like a single, extended, not-quite-”real,” not really animated but impressively sustained feat of visual gratification, if you don’t mind the cruelty-to-undersea-creatures parts. Reading the accounts of how Kate Winslet held her breath for seven minutes during a deep dive performance-capture sequence provokes two conflicting thoughts in the viewer. One: That’s a long time.
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