graphically amazing, but the story "so-so"

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2010)

Welcome to my Avatar review dear fellow Cinemania's.
The story begins rapidly within 5 minutes you know exactly where you are in the story. It is not told very good, but if you pay attention you learn the background. We meet Jake Sully (Jakesully) a former Marine that does not have enough money to get his paraplegia operated (yes it is possible at that time). His brother was a very important aspect in the Avatar project. It is not really explained why he died, but because they were twins he could also control his avatar apparently. He never had training, but he agrees to go along to prove to his doctors that he still can do things he did before.
Let me say one thing the first time you see Pandora it will blow your mind. You meet the General red neck (yes with three scars on his face) this made me realize that I should not pay attention to the story anymore. It is just so original. The first time he is in his Avatar it is amazing, but the scenes without the Avatars are not interesting. The Forrest is beautiful with a lot of colors, strange animals etc. There we meet the local Na'vi's who for a strange reason (they casted the sky people out a time ago) see in Jake someone who could learn their manors. So he gets trained by a Na'vi girl. Well it is not a great plot twist that they get feelings for each other, but like I said before you should not watch this movie for its story, because it is not good. After training for a while he can become a true Na'vi living at the Hometree, but the general who wants to gain unobtanium which is worth a lot of dollars for his boss needs to get those Na'vi away from the Hometree, because The unobtanium's biggest source is beneath Home tree the place where the Na'vi lives.
After a while they get impatient and after hearing the blog of Jack Sully where he states that the Na'vi never leave the Homtree they decide to pull the plug out the Avatar project. He starts to bomb the Hometree. Amazing plot twist was that Neytiri(the Na'vi chick) gets mad at Jake, because he betrayed them, but because he was so connected to their world and was disgusted by the way they were bombed out of their home he decided he was going to help the Na'vi.
To earn back their trust he tries to capture and connect to Turok Macho the biggest bird-like creature on the planet. He had trouble with connecting and capturing the smaller bird, but the biggest bird was captured quit easily for some reason. Same as those arrows the Na'vi shoot first have no affect on the glass of the choppers, but later they penetrate right through the glass. There are more holes in the story, but I will not mention them.
He and the Na'vi came up with a strategic plan to win the fight from the Sky people. He and his friend find guns (Radom guns that fit to their much bigger bodies perfectly (?)And attack.
To summarize Avatar you need to state this sentence: Avatar is Beautiful, but the story lacks. The story is just to plain and the same as so many other movies out there. It only receives a 7, because the graphics are stunning.