A total disaster

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2010)

Straight to the point: The movie pretends to have a story. I don't know what Cameron has been smoking while writing this screenplay, but it's easily his worst-written movie yet.
There's not one inch of character development. All characters are as clichéd as they get. Look no further than to Michelle Rodriguez, whose character is as blank as a piece of paper for the duration of the movie, before she suddenly declares right before the big battle: "I didn't sign up for this s**t." Now, that's good writing.
Why did Cameron feel the need to rip off Aliens over and over? The design of the ships reeks of Aliens. The movements of the Navi somehow look like the movements of the titular Aliens. Rodriguez plays a B-movie version of the tough pilot from Aliens. The bad guy Paul Reiser played in Aliens was split up between Ribisi and Lang. The end fight between Lang and Saldana/Worthington/CGI creature is a reversal of the Aliens end fight between Weaver and the Alien queen.
Why was it necessary to create a Navi language? The most important Navi speak English really well. At one point Tsutey has suddenly become so advanced in the English language that he is able to give a simultaneous interpretation of Sully's big speech without any effort.
Why is Avatar a blatant copy of "Dances with Wolves"? Why is Avatar's mysticism even more embarrassing than the mysticism in the Matrix sequels? Why does Cameron use the big, old sledgehammer for his embarrassingly naive sociological-political-ecological message? This movie has too much fat that a more capable writer would've cut out radically. Cameron isn't a capable writer.
Forget about this piece of junk.