Entertaining movie with great visuals but one that falls short on good characters and a solid story.

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2009)

Cameron's 15 year in-the-making vision comes to life in all its visual glory. He envisioned a spectacular world and Peter Jackson's Weta studios does an amazing job to bring it to life. The attention to detail and the creatures is really impressive. My favorite scenes of the movie were the flying ones (jaw-dropping) and the final battle.
However, if Cameron had put the same sort of effort towards the story this would have been a movie for the ages. Too often the movie reminded me of a combination of Dances with Wolves, Jurassic Park, and Pocahontas; leading it to be quite predictable. The villains were one-dimensional, and some scenes were quite unnecessary (tribal mumbo-jumbo), and the whole political and environmental viewpoints. As for the 3d aspect of it, yes it does give the viewer an immersive experience, but it doesn't make or break the movie in my opinion (I'm yet to buy into this whole 3d riff raff) Overall, this is a movie that should be seen by everyone for its stunning visuals and for its purely entertaining adventure story .