Avatar: Fire and Ash debuted in theaters on December 19, 2025, marking the third installment of the Avatar franchise. Throughout the years, Avatar has set box office records with its first movie, which grossed over $2.92 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of all time. Avatar 2: The Way of Water tailed, grossing $2.32 billion worldwide, making it the third highest-grossing film of all time behind Avengers: Endgame. Going into the opening weekend, there were high expectations for Fire and Ash to have close to the same impact as the first 2 had. The director James Cameron is known for directing these movies, with their fantastic graphics and visuals. Each movie that has come out hasn’t disappointed me in any of these categories, with the plot still intact and making sense. I loved how they executed Fire and Ash. The official runtime of the movie is 3h 17m. Even though this might be a reason to skip the movie, don’t let it. If you’re a fan of emotional yet complex movies with a lengthier screentime, this is the movie for you. Following The Way of Water, Fire and Ash continues the story of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Ney’tiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the rest of the family, still living with the Metkayina. The Metkayina are a Na’vi clan who are situated on the water, far away from where the family had once lived in the forest with the Omatikaya clan. In an attempt to hide away, Jake Sully and Ney’tiri decide to move from the forest to an island surrounded by water. Following the battle against the humans aligned with the main antagonist, Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), who survived the first movie, his consciousness is transferred from a human body to an avatar’s body designed to look like him. It seems that the Sullys can finally rest and forget their troubled past, or can they? Well, in Fire and Ash, the Sullys plan to head back home, believing that the danger has been eliminated. The family caught a ride with the Tlalim clan (Wind Traders), which introduced these airships that are essentially carried by jellyfish-like creatures. On the way across the many lands on the planet Pandora, the wind traders and the Sullys are ambushed by what we come to learn is the hostile Ash Clan: The Mangkwan, on their way home, causing the family to separate into groups as the wind traders’ ships come crashing down from the sky. With the kids separated from Jake and Ney’tiri, there is a tone of panic between both parties. The Sully children work together to run far away from the Mangkwan as the clan’s leader, Varang (Oona Chaplin), searches for new firepower to continue their journey for power and control on Pandora. Further into the film, Quaritch and Varang seem to have allied to take down Jake Sully once and for all, after he betrays Quaritch in the first movie. Protecting Metkayina and his family, Jake surrenders himself to the humans and their newly formed allies, the Mangkwan. Miles ‘Spider’ Socorro (Jack Champion), who is a friend of the Sully family and basically a part of the family at this point in the movie, saves Jake from the human base on the planet while preparing for the inevitable war on the horizon. Sinking the last ships and airships the humans once commanded, the native tribes come out victorious, but not without a nail-biting conclusion. Towards the end, Miles Quaritch and Jake Sully are seen battling it out on top of the floating islands, although Quaritch is seen throwing himself into the fire after the battle’s aftermath, his death is not confirmed, with Varang escaping the scene as well. As the movie comes to a close, Jake and his family are safe and sound on a land away from any sort of danger for the time being. As the main antagonists were not defeated on screen, it sets up what can be possible storylines in future films.