Change Your Image
Mirganaer
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
A missed opportunity
I went too see it in cinema as I was interested. The movie was not boring, it was mostly good to look at and it didn't feel too long. So I don't think my money was wasted.
However, on my opinion, the movie was a huge waste of the zillions of money they (well, mostly Mr Cameron) used for making it. I can't believe they used so many years making a film with a plot which is so half-witted and has holes almost as big as the moon Pandora. Why did the Sullys go hiding among the water tribe, and only there without ever thinking anything else, even though they knew nobody there and knew nothing about their culture? How's it possible that there was a thriving "whaling" industry with specialized vessels and ships and a huge amount of trained crew, only after a couple of years after the humans re-entered Pandora (and just found out about the "whale brain liquid")? And I certainly didn't like how it was just like Titanic in the end.
Even worse was the character building was really poor or actually just nonexistent. I can't believe, that in every turn, every single character, does exactly what you would suppose them to do, and occasionally, something even more stupid. The bad guys are just like "yeah, we're so bad" and that's it. And others are just like "always protect the family" and that's basically it. In the end, there was exactly one character that was somehow interesting, thankfully.
Because of the character issue, I really didn't care much what happened to everyone in the story. As a result the movie was not very thrilling or intriguing.
As it's said everywhere, the visuals are the best part of the film. That is true. However, maybe because of the theatre I was, I wasn't really blown away. It was my first 3D in years and I had forgotten how the glasses feel. But it looked good. And to say something positive, the years used for developing underwater filming, were not wasted. The underwater scenes were simply gorgeous, the best I've ever seen on screen.
To sum up: using this amount of time and money for working with the filming technology should have deserved a better story and interesting characters. This way, it could have been an epic experience. But this opportunity was missed. Now it was just a pretty show, mildly interesting, but as a whole a bit lame.
Ella ja kaverit (2012)
Quite ok children's movie
Not bad, but there has been better children's movies made in Finland too. There was many funny moments, and some very surprisingly intense moments too, actually. The child actors did a good job, as well as adults.
The biggest problem was that the plot had more holes than an Emmental cheese. Many of the characters lost their motivation and agenda, and sometimes it was really difficult to see where the whole movie is going altogether. The plot idea of saving a school for not be destroyed undera a formula track was not bad in itself, but considering this, what was the point of the long search for the classroom and the teacher that the first part of the movie occupied? Good children's movies are usually a bit absurd. There were these good moments too, like an absurdly large school where children are lost for ages, but this movie was also a bit absurd in the wrong places. Why nobody else stopped the plans to destroy the school (and houses)? What did the headmaster of the big school actually want? It missed the warmth and sense of magic, that is for example in Onneli and Anneli.
It was an interesting movie, it was not boring, but not very memorable either. The kids liked it all right but I guess it was difficult for them too to know what was really happening.