My thoughts on Avatar: Fire and Ash
by ShyArtK1d
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Avatar is a cool franchise. The visual effects are some of the best I’ve ever seen in live action movies, and many of the characters carry interesting design traits and intricate lore.
Like the first two movies, Avatar: Fire and Ash brings us to the colorful world of Pandora. However, this movie differs from the others in two main things: The newly introduced Na’vi tribe and the runtime.
QUICK DISCLAIMER: This will contain some spoilers, so in case you haven’t seen the movie yet, that’s on you for reading this I guess.
The first thing I’m going to talk about is the runtime. Fire and Ash has a staggering runtime of 3 hours and 17 minutes. That’s longer than Avengers Endgame. Now, the visual effects and animation in the movie are absolutely stunning and further exploring the world of Pandora isn’t an issue for me. The main issue about the runtime is the script. At several points during the movie, characters are faced with life or death situations, and yet, due to plot armor, they survive. That happens about five times in this movie. Characters like Quaritch and Varang will clearly have the upper hand in a scene, but by making bad decisions or just holding back from going through with threats, they act like plot devices to keep the movie going.
Now onto the next topic for this review: The Mangkwan Clan. The only description I can think of for this clan is, the Omatikaya Clan (The Forest People) were arsonists on as many substances as is possible to give a living creature. In the movie, Varang literally uses a drug to try and figure out Quaritch’s true motives.
What I did really like about this movie is how it gave us more time with Kiri, Lo’Ak, and the Tulkun, specifically Payakan.
Throughout the movie, we got to see how deeply connected Kiri is to Pandora and how she can use her surroundings to her advantage. She seems to be able to control her abilities a little more, using them to help the main characters escape a Mangkwan camp, prevent Spider from suffocating, and eventually, Kiri is finally able to connect more directly to Eywa, with help from Spider and Tuk.
During the film, we also get to see how strong the friendship between Lo’ak and Payakan is. Despite being outcast from the Tulkun, Lo’ak goes after Payakan, and tries to convince the other Tulkun to help them fight the incoming Sky People. In the process, we are introduced to another Tulkun named Ta’nok. Ta’nok is the only other survivor from Payakan’s birth pod, escaping the RDA with numerous injuries. Together, Ta’nok, Lo’ak, and Payakan talk to the Tulkun elders, eventually managing to convince them to join the fight for their future. Seeing the extent of Ta’nok’s injuries honestly shocked me, since I thought the Payakan was the only survivor of his pod. I think they did a great job with the emotion in this scene.
I don’t have much else to say about this movie other than the fact that its visual effects are awesome, as always, and that a lot of the movie could have been avoided had characters been off-ed sooner. Other than that, it was a really cool movie, and I’d probably rate it a 7/10.
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