![]() ![]() In a sense, Cameron’s triumph here is limited, even as it’s also boundless. Strictly speaking, The Way of Water may not be better than Avatar-which, to be clear, is fantastic-but there is certainly more of it. ![]() (Until Star Wars: The Force Awakens came along, financial analysts resorted to qualifying new hits as setting records among movies “not directed by James Cameron.”) Now, 13 years later, the self-proclaimed king of the world has finally emerged from the oceanic depths with a sequel, and it’s both exactly what you expected and more than you could’ve imagined: repetitive, eye-popping, clunky, spectacular. Yet defying the odds has long been Cameron’s forte remember, Titanic was a colossal boondoggle until it became the biggest movie in the world, and the original Avatar was initially anticipated to be a misbegotten foray into motion-capture extravagance before it dethroned Titanic and attained box-office supremacy. ![]() With more than a decade spent in mysterious development, its hypothetical completion and release became something of an industry joke-the cinematic equivalent of hell freezing over. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is a movie full of miracles-floating mountains, underwater trees, resurrected warriors, talking whales-but perhaps the most miraculous thing about it is that it exists at all. ![]()
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