Good But Not Great

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2010)

I was anticipating this movie for a long time. I saw it in theatres, not 3D just regular.
I wasn't "blown away" like most people were. I was expecting more from Cameron, but I guess he couldn't get as much out of his CGI animated actors.
The movie was visually stunning, and I loved the premise. It seemed like allegory for what is going on today in the middle east in terms of displacing populations for resources. I really liked that. I liked the fact that U.S marines were toppled by the natives. I liked the message of the movie. How we are all linked to our planet and each other.
The movie is about humans travelling to another star system in search of a precious mineral that is worth it's weight in gold x 1000. How ever there is a problem, the biggest reserves are under the home of the native population...in typical U.S fashion they dispatch the marines to destroy the natives.
The avatar is a genetically modified body that looks like the aliens but is controlled remotely by humans. The human controlling the main character loses himself in the alien culture and soon is forced to choose sides. Beautiful story..just like Pocahontas, or the Last Samurai.
This movies gets high marks for visuals and allegory...however the story was typical, and CGI doesn't convey emotions like real humans...therefore I'm giving it a 7 out of 10, I wouldn't want to see this again, but it was worth seeing the first time.