In all honesty, the story is awfully predictable, and an almost step-by-step rehash of the first movie. The action sequences are reliably awesome as always, and there are some truly heartfelt emotional passages. It's stunningly beautiful, creative and inventive and it makes you want to be there so badly, it hurts. The world he and his visual design team have created is truly a work of art. ~ The message and moral of the story are about as subtle and nuanced as a jackhammer. ~ The bad guys are all 100% completely evil, and the good guys are all but entirely saintly. ~ The lead actor has no discernable acting skills. ~ The dialogue was written by a 16-year-old intern. Because these are James Cameron's most typical trademarks, for pretty much all of his movies, which he has once again dutifully employed in Avatar 2: ~ The story is paper-thin. That's how he keeps tricking us into spending all our hard-earned money to see his movies, so much so that we've made him the most commercially successful director of all time. He has some kind of mysterious, special power that he secretly wields over us and we don't even notice.
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