Pocahontas?!

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2009)

My eyes were glued to the screen for the duration of Avatar. However my mind was working overtime taking notes. I've been watching James Cameron movies since Terminator. Mostly they are hit or miss for me. In short my favorites of his are Aliens & Titanic. Avatar cribs a lot from Aliens mostly its characters. Giovanni Ribisi & Paul Reiser are playing the same person in two different movies. The other problem with Avatar is after an hour I felt like I had seen everything I was going to see. The rest of the movie was the same stuff except bigger & louder & more of it. Also there is zero emotional investment in the characters because there is zero development. Everyone plays the part you see with no deviation at all. I felt more emotion watching Optimus Prime get killed in Transformers 2 than the anything in Avatar. Which brings me to another point why is Bay a hack & Cameron a genius?! Could you imagine what would happen if the two ever teamed up?!
Anyway Avatar is what it promises a virtual thrill ride from start to finish so in that respect Avatar succeeds.