Avatar – Movie Review
The movie of the holiday season thus far has been James Cameron’s Avatar. The 3-D film was made under an astronomical budget (I’ve read estimates of $500 million for production and marketing). While I’d hate to discuss the plot it revolves around main antagonist Jake Sully to inhabit human like forms of a species called the Na’vi in order to persuay these humanoid like creatures to leave their beloved land in favour of the human race mining the precious material.
Story wise there isn’t much that’s the whole story and you can predict how it turns out if you’ve watched more then a handful of movies (guy bonds with Na’vi, doesn’t want their land to be moved out and conflict starts etc.). From this standpoint as well as including a seemingly pointless back-story at the beginning and video blogs as weak plot devices you could say it was pretty underwhelming.
The reason Avatar has captured many audiences and critics alike, it’s one 3D extravaganza. It may be too long and not at all original but they sure flexed their financial muscle on this one. At times it felt like a boner showoff as some scenes had no explicit point other then to say – “look at what we can do”. Still that’s beside the point, it’s still excellent from this aspect and it’s hard to argue that. I actually expect quite a few awards to come out of this movie due to the fantastic imagery and extensive 3-D work.
All said and done, this is NOT the movie of the year. It’s a good movie, okay story line, great action and even better graphics. It still wasn’t very memorable movie wise. It doesn’t come close to the Gladiators or the Slumdog Millionaires.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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Yet another positive review! Why do I want to hate on this movie so much? I mean, it’s not like I’m against ‘pop’ culture or anything. Sigh…maybe I should go see it…