Nice visual effects but otherwise is boring and assumes too much.

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2009)

This movie has one major flaw in my opinion - no back story - it assumes that the audience is already familiar with the history of the plot - it just starts off with humans on the planet pandora (obviously weve been there for years) according to the very brief narration and that weve been trying to work things out with the creatures known as the N'avi. Now ,i know nothing about anything going into this movie . so i have no idea who anyone is ,who the navi are or why we are on pandora - its like jumping into the middle of a book that you have never read. I for one don't like movies that have no backstory and just make things up along the way. We find out that avatars are some type of hybrid alien/human bodies that humans can transfer their consciousness into and inhabit, OK now im really lost ? there is never any story behind it all. such as what happened to earth , when did we discover pandora and why are we there to begin with , its all just assumed that we the audience are ignorant. eventually we find out that the greedy humans along with a military wack job want to plunder pandora for a material that is worth millions. so we have the hero become an avatar and ends up falling in love with a native catlike girl alien and then it becomes a clichéd battle with unbelievable bad dialog and too much visual effects that are designed to make you forget that the movie is another 2 hours long..
Like I said in the title of my review. Nice visual effects but otherwise -a confusing disjointed borefest. 3/10.