Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

Rating: 3/10 (7 November 2010)

Avatar has a reputation for being the biggest movie ever. There is no denying it's tremendous success. I really had no interest in seeing this at all, but the huge success had me curious. Maybe this was worth checking out.
Or maybe not.
A hell of a lot of people like this or love this, but I am going against the grain. Avatar is nothing special. Despite it's sheer beauty and excellent effects, this is a very boring movie that is predictable and a cliché ridden mess. Think, hero gets into avatar, hero goes to world, hero infiltrates, hero meets girl, hero falls for girl, and If you had seen as many movies as I have then you should be thinking how long it is before the obvious time where girl finds out about hero's original plan for cliché conflict.
There's more, the cliché tough military guy who just wants to kill everything without remorse, the suit who is uncaring played very poorly by a complete miscast Giovanni Ribisi, The one who turns against the EVIL humans to side with the REAL GOOD guys, the slow motion battle sequence with faded noise and music to deliver "emotion", The hero feeling bad about himself, the final battle with the evil bad guy, hero proves himself to the ones he wronged, ugh......this is a lot of em.
I am so sick of clichés.
Must I forget about the very obvious political message here? James Cameron took a direct shot at former President George W. Bush. I do not care where you stand on what political platform, but please leave your bullshit politics out of the movies and just make a movie that is all about escape.
Bottom line, this movie was like landing a date with a very beautiful babe, you start off excited, then you begin talking and she is kinda dull, then as the night rolls on, she gets more boring and by the end, you just want to politely end the evening and not date her again because she bores you to death and is clearly not your type, despite her beauty being her only saving grace.
Nothing too see here people, nothing too see here please!