‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Is Visually Stunning and Narratively Underwhelming

James Cameron’s third installment in the Pandora saga doesn’t reinvent the wheel, yet still builds one of the greatest arguments for the virtues of cinema

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For anyone who went into 2022’s Avatar: The Way of the Water for its plot, there’s a fair chance they walked out of theaters disappointed. But the 13 year pause between iterations was never meant just to buy James Cameron time to write the script for a sequel to his meteoric 2009 blockbuster. The primary reason for the lengthy interm…