Rated PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.

Behind all that aggressive promotion, Avatar is just another sort of crap, with a very simple story line, but with some unbelievable special effects - the film, directed by James Cameron and played by Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, has been partially revealed to the public for the first time at Comic-Con in San Diego, last July. And a maximum suspense was organized , in December, 2009. Big action pictures with lots of explosions, no real script, no real around the release of the trailer for the film before the release itself of future blockbuster, in theatersdialogue, pseudo-science, connected together by all the cliches we have seen for the last 20 years. Its story has been told so many times, that it is already outdated. The fact that they are using capitalism to send an anti-capitalist message could be simply applied to this movie as well.

In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.
When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid Na'vi in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an avatar identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.



As you probably know, there were written a lot of effusive reviews, all around the world. I would say Avatar is one of the most successful movies ever, but with that aggressive promotion, I am totally convinced that behind the film is a bad and uninspired story, fully developed by others, so many times.
Avatar could be thought of as the first mega-blockbuster that's fully broadband. Its hero is literally an avatar, the virtual representation of a live human being who manipulates its adventures remotely, like the player of a video game. (The original Sanskrit meaning of "avatar"—the bodily form taken by a deity descending to earth—is also suggested in this movie's quasi-religious cosmology.) Far from the millennial bleakness of The Matrix, Avatar is an end-of-the-world fantasy that's sanguine about the prospects for virtual reality. Cameron cheerfully concedes that the human race may be bound for extinction—he sets his story in 2154, when earth's resources will already have been depleted, turning our species into rapacious galactic colonialists. But his confidence in technology is boundless. Memo to Al Gore: If we can just bio-engineer large blue representations of ourselves and hook them up to our brains via isolation pods, climate change is not going to be a problem.


I would say James Cameron made this movie only to develop some technology advancements, taking no care of the story line, but for sure, there are some futuristic inventions that somehow could change use of 3D. Avatar's plot is very simple, but let's concentrate on how well Cameron constructed the scenes. It is overwhelming indeed how a muscle moves under the character face, for example, or how those jellyfishes are flying above our heads.



What a glory Cameron has created for Jake to romp in, all in a crisp 3D realism. It's every fairy tale about flying dragons, magic plants, weirdly hypnotic creepy-crawlies and feral dogs rolled up into a rain forest with a highly advanced spiritual design. It seems -- although the scientists led by Sigourney Weaver's top doc have barely scratched the surface -- a flow of energy ripples through the roots of trees and the spores of the plants, which the Na'vi know how to tap into.
As with everything in "Avatar," Cameron has coolly thought things through. With every visual tool he can muster, he takes viewers through the battle like a master tactician, demonstrating how every turn in the fight, every valiant death or cowardly act, changes its course. The screen is alive with more action and the soundtrack pops with more robust music than any dozen sci-fi shoot-'em-ups you care to mention, but intellectually, this movie is worthless.


Notes from:
- The Internet Movie Database
- Kirk Honeycutt
-Dana Stevens