Just a few thoughts

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2009)

Avatar plays on Islamic xenophobia. I mean, cat people sitting on deposits of precious minerals that must be whipped out, in order to be collected. The noble white man, a handicap because no able bodied member of the ruling class would ever stand for that type of shenanigans, enters into a tribe of literally colored people to unite and inspire the will to persevere against a mass extinction. Scenes of prayer and chant are likened to Islamic draw to worship. The Colonel, played by Stephen Lang, call for a "preemptive strike" against the people of Pandora's ancestral grounds sets in the end game for this film. The main characters plea for forgiveness and the strength to battle against the "sky people" is reminiscent of Mark Walberg's plea to a plastic plant in M. Night's The Happening. James Cameron could have cut and hour out of the movie, as I too wanted to," make it home for dinner" as much as the Colonel speaking on the destruction of an entire population. Michelle Rodriguez was fine in her usual role as the human female warrior, I especially liked the eye make-up, and it helped to further gentrify her into the blue tribes. The last minute heroics of Jake Sully's, played by Sam Worthington desperate plea to Pandora's deity is just the feel good story we need around the holiday season, this aqua colored avenger had risked his life to preserve this Cameron's peaceful planet, never count the deaths of the natives. The knife in the throat would have been a more suiting end to the Colonel, but the shots through the heart and lungs of the mechanized Martian served as an adequate end, but the resurrection of Jake Sully would have been a little more bearable if it were Easter time though.