Avatar Fire and Ash review: James Cameron’s breathtaking visuals can’t mask how mind numbingly boring the film is

Avatar Fire and Ash reviewCast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Britain Dalton, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, and Oona ChaplinDirector: James CameronRating: ★★Without spoiling much, there is a scene in Avatar: Fire and Ash, where a key character is being scheduled for execution, and their captor says it is slated for 0600 hours the next morning.

In that moment, even as a good guy was set to be gone forever, my only thought was the inconvenience of being executed at 6 AM, such an odd time. That is how detached you feel from all the characters in James Cameron's third instalment of Avatar. There are breathtaking visuals, some of which are unlike anything seen in cinema. There is a vast canvas on which Cameron lets his creativity loose.

But that is just it. All that is hollow, not complemented by any emotional depth. The characters feel 2D, the dialogue cringe, and the beats so repetitive that you can already predict the plots of Avatars 4 and 5. This is Hollywood blockbuster, assembly line edition, with as much emotional range as a ChatGPT response.