Script by George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald...

Rating: 6/10 (27 December 2009)

Think back to when the Batphiles all came out of their cave and made 'The Dark Knight' the 'best' film of all-time (according to criteria on this site)? Well, the other side of the fence has raised its head and is extracting revenge. For the next several weeks, we're all in for an Avatargasm.
No-one will argue that 'Avatar' will set the bar for the future of 3D (if 3D is your bag), however that's really all you can positively like about this film. For serious film-goers, there's more to a movie than pictures and a thinly-disguised Cameron morality lesson on Iraq.
Other than state-of-the-art visuals, it's more of what we've come to expect from James Cameron - outstanding visuals, juvenile dialogue ("I see you") and an even weaker story line that's been playing worldwide for the past eight years or so.
Also, because of Cameron, at 2 hours 45, it's way over long - both in total and in individual scenes (when you've seen one Avatarian(?) flying an extraterrestrial flying whatever, you've seen them all - we don't need the extended version of it, most of which we saw 30 years ago in Star Wars and most recently in Jurassic Park, et al.