Avatar: The Way of Water 4K 2022 Ultra HD 2160p

Jake Sully, Neytiri and their children team up with the underwater Na'vi tribe to fight the enemy invaders of the planet Pandora.

Avatar: The Way of Water 4K Review
In 2009, the space epic about blue aliens was striking with its incredible visual palette, breaking all box office records and generally looking like the beginning of a monster sci-fi saga, which would be a worthy rival for Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or the same Harry Potter. As it turned out later, "Avatar" director James Cameron had his own plan to take over the cinematic world, in which the speed factor, as well as meeting the audience's expectations, clearly stood somewhere in penultimate place. Thirteen years later, what had already begun to seem an infinitely distant dream, still decided to break into a grim reality - the story of the brave Marine Jake Sully received the long-awaited sequel.

Since the events of the first "Avatar" a good ten years have passed. Jake (Sam Worthington), who became the new leader of the Na'vi people, lived a happy family life with Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). The couple had three children, two boys and a girl. Sally's family also adopted the child of the late Dr. Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), who mysteriously came into the world after her death. As is often the case, the characters' happiness didn't last long as the murdered Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) reincarnated as an Avatar and began preparing a new invasion of Pandora, this time with the aim of taking revenge on the traitor Sally once and for all.

The most important factor in the concept of the second "Avatar," oddly enough, was the location - the events of the sequel moved from the surface of Pandora on Earth to its seabed. Moreover, the water in "Avatar" not only forms a common picture, but also emphasizes the semantic part of the film, based on the themes of the spiritual quest, the cyclical nature of life and the balance of energy. Water, as the most esoteric of the world's elements, teaches the main characters to adapt to the vast mechanism of the universe not through rational comprehension, but through a sensual symbiotic experience - full unity with the world at the level of heart and soul. And if you consider the fact that the script for the new Avatar was written back in the first decade of the noughties, then you can say with confidence that Cameron in a sense looked into the future and predetermined the development of social and cultural attitudes in the coming years. Now, when the magical realism is gaining a new wave of popularity, a blockbuster about the departure from the pragmatic perception of life to the spiritualistic seems more timely and relevant than ever.

But of course, "Avatar" is first and foremost an action-adventure film on an incredible scale with a detailed universe where in addition to the Na'vi, there are now other alien nations with their own ancient culture, rich flora and fauna, and an original language that will take a lot of skill to master. In The Way of the Water, you can see how much the possibilities of technical effects have leaped in recent years, and the dizzying camera flights of Cameron's permanent cameraman Russell Carpenter can only be admired with servile admiration.

The journey to the very bottom of the ocean passes without much surprise - footage of the very Mariana Trench for which the director risked his health for a full five seconds is nowhere to be seen, but this is probably for the best. The presence of something habitually earthly in this picture, perfect in its unreality, seems frankly wrong and even sinful. This is also how the rabid white invaders led by Colonel Quaritch, whose imperialist ambitions no longer seem so caricatured, are perceived. However, the character of the colonel is still far from the image of a truly elaborate villain, but his role here is not the point, and the personal growth of the main characters requires a lot of timing.

Despite the overly pathetic dialogue, fictional events and extraterrestrial landscapes, the second Avatar's plot appeals to the modern human consciousness as much as possible, strolling through the sore points of our history, as these have only become more acute in recent years. There is a critique of colonialism, which works much better than in the recent Black Panther, a rethinking of the global migration crisis, and a clear call to abandon the black and white vision that divides the world into "insiders" and "outsiders.