(spoiler free)
so the visuals were lovely
still some shots that looked a bit too "smoothed" out that took me out of it but others were very impressive
apparently most of these 13 years have just been James Cameron in post production working on this and the upcoming sequels as the shooting was actually done some time ago. and you can tell .. the vfx is immaculate for much of it, but in particular around the water
pretty simple story, but it hits at times
presses a lot of the same emotional buttons as the first, in fact I think the score was practically recycled
action was surprisingly really great. I think it had better action than a lot of other films that are considered action genre .. the blue people can really kick ass
it felt almost as if JC rounded up a scuba diving crew off the coast of Australia to play the human bad guys, which was pretty goofy .. way more entertaining than the stereotypical marines of the last film .. i mean they're wearing graphic tees and yelling "bugger"at the alien creatures which provided some laughs
eventually you begin to be able to visually distinguish the characters, it takes a while to pick out their subtle differences though, as the only real difference is hair styles and freckles .. the siblings also have inexplicably different accents which was strange ..?
I think the biggest gripe was with the dialogue .. it's not...great...
I kept imagining Cameron sitting and greenlighting some of the lines in this and it's hard to imagine..
it's good, worth a watch.. but no desire to re-watch because of the length, just like the last one
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