Avatar: The Final Cut

The glory of Avatar has always been in the spectacle. The story is derivative and predictable and many of the characters, particularly the villains, are 2 dimensional. While the film is still not prefect, Ninja-Trix's edit goes a long way to removing some of the tedium and makes the film much more enjoyable, bringing the quality of the narrative closer to its outstanding visuals.

The removal of most of Jake's narration is seamless and leaves the viewer with no missing information, proving how unnecessary it was and making for a much more interesting watch for the viewer. The extended edition added key scenes and Ninja-Trix has supplemented this well by including select deleted scenes that help the narrative and characters. The only flaw here is there is a slight downgrade in quality in some of these scenes, but this can't be considered Ninja-Trix's fault.

Thanks to this edit, my anticipation for the Avatar sequels (the first of which is finally due later this year) is much greater!

An awesome edit of the awesome extended edition. My only gripe was the removal the voiceovers (which was the primary edit of this version, lol) I'm so used to the voiceovers, so the film feels off without them. Voiceovers are something James Cameron does a lot in his films, and in Avatar I thought it worked especially well because of the log entries Jake Sully made throughout the movie. Losing them is not a deal breaker, as either way Avatar is an awesome f-ing movie, but it does dock a point off the enjoyment scale for me.

A great alternative to the orignial Extended Edition, highly recommended.

While the film is still far from perfect in my eyes, the efforts of Ninja-Trix make for a far more watchable time than I anticipated, the lack of frequent narration (perhaps counter-intuitively) giving a more introspective feeling than what I remember from last watching the original theatrical version on TV over ten years ago.

Using the extended collector’s edition as a base with minimal deletions and more deleted scenes did concern me at first, but on watching I found that I didn’t feel the length as much as I expected, the extra material fleshing out the story rather than bloating it. The tale of Grace’s school fills a hole in the original regarding what the Avatar program was trying to achieve (outside of Selfridge’s brief speech), and I can definitely relate to the newly-restored scene of Jake having breakfast with the scientists and looking like he’d rather be anywhere else!

While I think that certain parts (present this edit and all the official versions) could be either trimmed further or removed completely, in the meantime this is the definitive cut for me. The additional editing is seamless, the image appears as good as that of my blu-ray copy (barring the unavoidable drop in quality with the deleted scenes) and the stereo-only audio doesn’t bother me at all since I don’t have a surround sound system!

For what would have been a 160-minute slog in the theatrical cut was made into a thrilling 180-minute delight with Ninja-Trix's Final Cut.

This is a high-quality fanedit with great choice of additional scenes and overall smoothed out pacing. Also, I have never seen Avatar look this good on a television.

The only issue I had was with some audio during quieter scenes, although it may have been stereo issues on my end.

By removing (most) of the voiceovers it makes the movies less exploitative and more ""show, don't tell", which is a good thing. I always preferred the extended edition, but this edit gives a little bit more motivation for Norm to be mad at Jake, and makes it more immersive overall.

The audio is stereo-only, which is a slight bummer, but understandable.

Also, I made English subtitles for this movie, PM me if you would like them.