Why bother?

Rating: 4/10 (10 January 2010)

Why bother spending years and hundreds of millions of dollars making a movie, if you're not going to tell a story that hasn't been told before? The story in this film has been told thousands of times before, and it's been told thousands of times better.
Even with all of the opportunities for doing something different that were presented by the technology and the subject matter, we still get a movie where the helpless natives are saved by the "chosen one" in the form of a white, American Marine.
If you're looking for eye candy, this film will give you all you could ever want. If you're looking for a great story for the 21st century, look elsewhere.