James Cameron takes 3D cinema to a spectacularly wild dimension - 4/5 James Cameron, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña are back with a $400-billion epic that will leave your mind blown

I’m going to peel back the curtain. I was seated in a theater’s auditorium, 3D glasses on my face, as an advanced screening of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” began. From the start, I was distracted by the visuals — not because this third “Avatar” was as dazzling to the eyes as the two franchise entries that came before it,

James Cameron has weighed back in on the ongoing debate around 3D and high frame rate filmmaking in the Avatar franchise, and his response is direct, confident, and backed by numbers. The filmmaker made it clear he stands by the creative choices behind the franchise,

Fire and Ash or any of these movies, but there also isn't anything remarkable about them beyond the visuals and the technology used to create them.

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" is another visually stunning film in James Cameron's billion-dollar franchise. But again, the story leaves much to be desired.