First review of Avatar Fire and Ash: first review for James Cameron’s third film in the Avatar franchise, Avatar: Fire and Ash, has been released and critics don’t seem to be impressed. Not only did the film debut with the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score for any film in the franchise, but it has also been labeled a ‘crap of crap’ or ‘the worst ever’ by critics. To keep an eye. (Also read: New Ramayan 3D promo to run in theaters along with James Cameron’s Avatar Fire and Ash; know everything about it)
Avatar: Fire and Ash’s Rotten Tomatoes score
Cameron’s much-hyped Avatar: Fire and Ash received mixed critical reactions compared to Avatar (2009) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The film scored 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. websiteWhich is the lowest ever for any film in this franchise. For context, Avatar got an 81% Tomatometer from critics, while Avatar 2 got a good 76%.
Avatar 3 panned by critics in first review
Guardian The film was rated 2/5 and called ‘three hours of nonsense’, pointing out that while ‘the rest of the cinema industry’ has abandoned 3D, Cameron has not. Part of the review reads: “In the second film, the Na’vi found a new world of water. Now in this third film they have to face the new element of fire. For the proposed fourth and fifth films, they will likely deal with earth and air.”
BBC Avatar 3 was called ‘the longest and worst so far’ in the franchise, and criticized for ‘197 minutes of screensaver graphics, clumsy dialogue, loose plotting and hippy-dippy New Age spirituality’. Rating it 1/5, the review stated: “Avatar: Fire and Ash feels unrealistic and un-immersive, like an old arcade game.”
“…How strange it is to watch James Cameron’s new movie, it feels like something you’ve seen before,” reads indiewireThe review stated, “Not only does the third installment of the Avatar saga lack the groundbreaking spectacle of its predecessors (the second of which was somehow even more astonishing than the first), it also lacks the relative novelty of its storytelling.”
Wire Avatar was also given a 3 1/5 rating and said it was ‘like looking at £300 million worth of glitter in a fish tank’. The review stated, “While it’s entirely fair to point out that he might be doing something right, as the combined global box-office earnings of the Avatar films now exceed $5 billion (£3.7 billion), the question is how much more moviegoers will really want, or can take, given how surprisingly little this latest installment has to add.”
James Cameron also gets praise
Not everyone condemned Avatar 3, because ignThe review reads: “The Water Way didn’t destroy Avatar so much as it drowned it.” While acknowledging that the film gives a feeling of déjà vu, the critic nevertheless wrote, “Cameron gives his trademark existing ideas great shape, but the new film also ‘rhymes’.”
deadline Called it a ‘battle epic for the ages’ in his review text: “Cameron knows how to create spectacle better than anyone, and this incarnation builds his world to such a high standard that I would venture to say you could put the first two films together and it still wouldn’t add up to the fierce scale and magnitude of this battle.”
geek hangout The review called it ‘shallow spectacle still gets your money’s worth’: “Whatever you make of Avatar: Fire and Ash’s tale of blue aliens once again rising up against the annihilation of the human race, the threequel is an aesthetic triumph as well as an indictment of much of what comes out of the Hollywood blockbuster machine.”
Empire Also seemed impressed, giving Avatar: Fire and Ash a 4/5 rating and writing, “In a big, busy and unwieldy Avatar, James Cameron once again displays his blockbuster mastery. Despite some repetitive moments, this is truly epic cinema, worth watching for three hours.”
Avatar: Fire and Ash had its world premiere at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on December 1, 2022, and is scheduled to be released on December 16, 2022.