Avatar: The Way of Water – 5

What a spectacle, what a production! If there was an ounce of originality in the story or characters, however, I missed it. The dialogue might as well have been cartoon bubbles; action scenes came straight from Moby Dick, Wizard of Oz and Titanic, just to name obvious sources. Any drama was dissipated by the three-hour length. And attempts to make the incredible plausible–e.g., the discussion of breathing underwater–just called attention to the logical absurdities–e.g., every arrow hit its target, while the machine guns mostly missed. And call me a racist, but I didn’t find the Navi terribly appealing.