Avatar

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2010)

Usually it happens, with films that introduce some technical innovation, that the fascination only lasts for as long as the next technical innovation appears. In Avatar, it doesn't even last that long. Once your eyes get used to the crispy images and colours, you realize that this is really only a cartoon on high-definition.
So on to the film. This is pretty much the Conquistadores versus the American-natives allover again.
So on to whatever ideas are to be found here.
I am willing to indulge the whole philosophy that nature acts as some sort of network and that we should interact harmoniously with it. It's just that the whole idea is leaking in the sense that in a nature that works in a Darwinian framework, it doesn't make much difference if the hunter respects the prey, or if a species is becoming extinct due to extraneous factors. Nature is chaos and you can find all sorts of excuses to justify chaos, or learn to live with it. But it's still chaos, and chaos has no sentiment.
The last part of the film is "Rambo" and "Aliens" allover again, and to be honest, no matter how advanced the computer graphics are, this is less impressive than Cameron's past adventures.