Visually astounding. But that's about it.

Rating: 6/10 (8 March 2010)

After all the hype and all the Oscar noms I decided to give this a try. I watched it on my laptop(sue me) so i didn't get to grasp the entire visual array of it. But I've seen enough effect driven movies that I don't even really care about it anymore. So this movie made me very disappointed, I was laughing for a good portion of the movie as every scene boiled down. I was inches away from turning it off. I was just so.... I'll boil it down The Goods-The world is captivating and gorgeous. It's a jungle like land filled with very interesting creatures and very amazing scenery. The general theme of the movie(Despite the fact that it is Pocohantas) is always a heart warming one. Well, that's about it for goods. Bads-Terrible clichés left and right. I as a I writer couldn't help myself by calling some of them out. The entire goal of the army itself is one massive cliché. Most of the characters act in clichés. The typical badass leader. The typical arrogant technical guidance guy. They even stole the scene from Apocalypse Now(The scene where Duvall is riding in a helicopter with a cup of coffee.) The dialogue is terrible. Nothing memorable about it. Thank god it didn't get nominated for best script. The last 45 minutes is pure retardation. Why on earth would you drop bombs on area filled with your own men? Why did they eve go down to the ground? Why do they have knives if they have guns? Why didn't they just fireball everything like they did with the tree? Why did a bunch of primitive horse riding blue people manage to take down a far superior society? All these things made me cringe. Also, for the first half of the movie the plot is extremely thin. most of it was to form the relationship between the main character and the love interest. But for a sci-fi fantasy style movie you should always put story first, instead Cameron did this to show off the world without really providing a lot for the story. And to be honest every character in this movie is incredibly flat and boring. non of them have back stories except for Jake. And non of them are very interesting at a character standpoint. I never for the life of me understood how a human who barely fought in the wars could lead this tribe which obviously showed some superiority.
I give this movie a 4/10. Mark my words, it will be forgotten once the next shiny movie comes out. All in all, it has the same effect that Independence Day had. Awesome Visuals, aliens, massive budget. The only difference is that ID had enjoyable characters. But it had a terrible ending and also suffered from the clichés.