Outstanding Special Effects, Repeated Storyline

Rating: 6/10 (10 November 2010)

Avatar. Supposedly the best film ever made by James Cameron. I have to disagree. The film blew me away when I first turned it on with the amount of effects used. I had never seen anything like it. It has redefined movies by far with what they can now do with motion capture and blue screen. The story however was basically Pocahontas. Bad men trying to mine planet. Natives fighting back. One of bad men becomes good man. Throw in a hummingbird and a raccoon and you've got yourself Pocahontas. Surely James Cameron could of made up a brilliant storyline with some twists and turns such as the Terminator Movies or one of my favourites of his True Lies but simply taken another storyline which has been used before. However the film has its ups and down and I didn't get bored watching it. The action scenes were amazing and when the tree was blown up, that blew me away. All in all a good film but just tweaking the storyline would of completely changed my mind.