thereal-2

Title says it all. I mean I still cannot believe it even after coming out from the cinema tonight I cannot believe it. I never liked HFR movies, I always had a soft spot for 3D but whenever I saw a HFR movie it sincerely disappointed me. Here the trick is that the entire movie is in 48 FPS and the calmer scenes have double frames achieving "24" FPS rather. Coming back to Pandora in the beginning an as a premise is narratively dull, and borderline cringeworthy sometimes but this is a similar blockbuster to the original Avatar so all the environmentalist and anti colonial themes/narratives will be similarly easy to ingest if rather not pushed full frontally exposed to your face. However building the world and characters around it kicks in with a better swing and swoosh (sploosh rather!?) after the first 1/3-rd of the movie and indeed it really shows the way of water. (seriously chef kiss!) Visuals are stunning again, WETA did an amazing CGI work here. The frames are so detailed and vibrantly vivid I had my jaw dropped.. only the explosions were still a bit cartoony unfortunately but did not distract too much to be honest. I really liked that this movie wasn't only about Jake & Neytiri anymore and had a good setup for plenty of supporting characters, Kiri especially I really liked how they treated her in the script.

Could tell all once again what has been told before me and probably will be after, but seriously if you thought Top Gun: Maverick was a magnificent movie sequel (basically retelling the same story in a new cape) you will not be surprised that Avatar: The Way of Water double downs successfully on everything. Seriously, Cameron did it... he really did it... even if it took 13 years for him to do so... Mind-Blown....

Had the privilege to attend the European premier of the movie which will come to Netflix on 23rd of November. The movie is a very nicely paced dramatization of an amazing human achievement and story, it's amazing because of the nature how far they came along and its amazingly human because they've did it sheerly as human beings nothing more. You could even profanely say as "superheroes" to quote the movie directly. Nothing super fancy directing and editing here, just purely nice narration and sequencing of events dramatization and this is being done nicely by the director Sally El Hosaini. But the real magic and chemistry lies between the two lead actresses Manal and Nathalie Issa who are siblings in real life as well not just on the screen; this chemistry between them gives you the passionate punch which delivers effectively indeed. This movie is definitely an underdog testament, a very good one.