Another Overrated film from Cameron

Rating: 5/10 (13 February 2010)

I've given it 5 because the special affects are truly excellent.
But that is all. For a film that's action-packed, there just wasn't any excitement in it. The plot was fair, but I had expected something a little more intelligent from a sci-fi film. For a film set on a planet far away, its inhabitants' culture was indistinguishable from that of human beings - they laughed at funny things, they got angry and their entire body language was just like humans. Maybe they thought it would make it more accessible, but I started watching the film with a sense of wonder at what beings on the other planet would be like and that sense of wonder was crushed very quickly. I don't like paying to have my sense of wonder crushed, thank you.
There was one moment of surprise in it for me, which I won't spoil but this did not make it worth the 162 minutes of boredom I endured. I honestly couldn't wait for this film to end and my boyfriend was furious about how bad it was for an hour afterwards - I had to calm him down by getting to a pub as quickly as possible.
If you just want to see state of the art graphics, then go, but don't expect anything more than an average film that had a great deal of money poured into it.