All flash no substance

Rating: 4/10 (5 February 2010)

I did enjoy the visual presentation during the movie, but that was all. I did not really see anything special about this movie and don't understand what is the hype about. The setting, character...etc might be a new idea in the field of movies, but people who do play video games have seen way too much similarities that Avatar presented to us. Starcraft, Warcraft, Command and Conquer, and Fantasy games...I have seen way too much similar setting, so Avatar is not magicial at all, but just cliché to me.
And the story, I do not know about the connection with Dance with the Wolf...etc that other people mentioned, but it is totally a rip off from Battle for Terra, which I believe was not a big hit at all so nobody mentioned about it. Battle for Terra story goes like this: Humans found a new planet Terra that Human can settle on, but the planet's air is poison to human, so they need to convert the atmosphere to earth like condition, but Earth like atmosphere is poison to Terra indigenous. Surprisingly, Terra indigenous also love their nature and suck at technology. War break out and Terra indigenous is at the brink of losing, in the end human lost because one of its pilot begin to like the Terra indigenous and decide to backstab human's battleship. Does this story sounds familiar? I think it totally is.
In my opinion, Avatar is just a million dollar rip off of video games and small make movies such as Battle for Terra, which the story is so similar that make me doubt Avatar's script was just modified from it.