Well... What else could one expect?

Rating: 5/10 (2 January 2010)

To make it short: Everything sucked about this movie. Except it didn't.
The script was ... well ... an uninspired mixture taken from a lot of a lot better other movies done by (frankly) more talented people.
The acting was ... well ... not god-awful, but even compared with recent performances in other action movies (I'm thinking Heath Ledger, Robert Downey, Christian Bale) bland, superficial and - again - uninspired.
I will not comment on what else was uninspired, because other than the visual candy, I couldn't find much else even remotely original.
And still - I have to admit, I was amused. And I stayed through the entire movie without getting completely annoyed. And after all, what can you expect from what was going to be a popcorn movie, anyway? At least it felt a lot less painful than most of the other so-called "blockbusters" of recent years, like the mediocre Fantastic Four movies, the second Hulk , the Transformers movies or the unspeakable G.I.Joe, just to name a few.
So if I'm totally honest, I can't trash it. Not as rigorously as some of the other commenters did. I can't, even though I'd really like to - only because of the size Jim Cameron's ego has grown to. I mean: Come on, Jim, you don't REALLY think you're the savior of cinema, do you? The movie was REALLY long, alright, and it certainly raised the bar concerning special effects and what not. But here's a thought you might want to wrap your head around: A bunch of great CG scenes and pieces out of everything successful from Al Gore to Harry Potter do not a great movie make. You have to have a story first.