Avatar review – James Cameron’s laboriously silly blockbuster shows its age

Ahead of the release of new chapter, the first in the franchise yields little – even the much-vaunted tech is old hatAs a curtain-raiser to the forthcoming sequel, unpromisingly subtitled The Way of Water – downwards? – James Cameron’s original Avatar from 2009 is being re-released. This was his folie de grandeur and vast, mystifying epic sci-fi fantasy that at the time was solemnly praised for its introduction of a new, improved immersive 3D technology. And for a while a