Most agree, including me, that the film is a technological marvel. There is simply no doubt, James Cameron is an innovator of the highest order. This film has the quality and realistic underwater scenes that a movie such as Aquaman (a hit in its own right), could only dream about.
With so many on this forum complaining of a lack of storyline however I was fearing the worst heading into the cinema, only to be surprised. I'm pleased to say the armchair critics are way off the mark. And note please, the vast majority offer absolutely no evidence for their hand - ringing whines. For the record, the story is quite different from the first episode. Besides introducing the ocean going Metkayina clan to us, the narrative spends a great portion of onscreen time, exploring the support characters, such as the Sully offspring, Spider and the kids of Metkayina chief Tonowari and his wife Ronal. One has to gather therefore, that many of these characters will have parts to play in future episodes. For countless correspondents to slavishly continue to state "the story is the same as the first" is patently false and simply not supported by an objective viewing of the movie.
This is not to say the movie and its story is perfect. I still found the "resurrection technology" sketched out relatively thinly and quite difficult to follow. And um ... what did happen to the Metkayina tribe in the final battle? One minute they seemed to be there onscreen and the next they were gone, apparently content to leave the heavy lifting to the Sully family and Payakan, the Tulkun. It didn't really feel right and then the clan turns out in numbers for the funeral scene. It was an unusually odd continuity lapse in what really is an outstanding and thoroughly entertaining 3 hour+ movie.
Go see it in numbers. You won't be disappointed. I'm happy to admit I do want to see it a commercial success, because I'm rather keen to see how this story continues in Part 3.
With so many on this forum complaining of a lack of storyline however I was fearing the worst heading into the cinema, only to be surprised. I'm pleased to say the armchair critics are way off the mark. And note please, the vast majority offer absolutely no evidence for their hand - ringing whines. For the record, the story is quite different from the first episode. Besides introducing the ocean going Metkayina clan to us, the narrative spends a great portion of onscreen time, exploring the support characters, such as the Sully offspring, Spider and the kids of Metkayina chief Tonowari and his wife Ronal. One has to gather therefore, that many of these characters will have parts to play in future episodes. For countless correspondents to slavishly continue to state "the story is the same as the first" is patently false and simply not supported by an objective viewing of the movie.
This is not to say the movie and its story is perfect. I still found the "resurrection technology" sketched out relatively thinly and quite difficult to follow. And um ... what did happen to the Metkayina tribe in the final battle? One minute they seemed to be there onscreen and the next they were gone, apparently content to leave the heavy lifting to the Sully family and Payakan, the Tulkun. It didn't really feel right and then the clan turns out in numbers for the funeral scene. It was an unusually odd continuity lapse in what really is an outstanding and thoroughly entertaining 3 hour+ movie.
Go see it in numbers. You won't be disappointed. I'm happy to admit I do want to see it a commercial success, because I'm rather keen to see how this story continues in Part 3.