Not enough plot to support this long a movie.

Rating: 7/10 (23 December 2009)

I would have given a better rating if the film had been better edited. Many scenes were too long, and just needed to be cut down a bit. The The basic story was one that has been done many times before, with all of the updated CGI and other high-tech trappings we expect in movies today. The effects were really all that carried the film, and they were excellent. Unfortunately, I think after spending all that money on the cool graphics no one wanted to cut out any of it - so the scenes all went on just a bit too long. James Cameron has achieved something of a god-like status in film-making, and he needs to find an editor that can stand up to this and clean up the footage properly. Cutting this film down from 160 minutes to 130 minutes would have produced a work that was clean, tight, and right on the mark.