This is an embarrassment to movies.

Rating: 1/10 (16 October 2012)

I don't even know where to start. It's like, they just sat down and said "How can we make this a cliché as possible?" After fifteen minutes I knew exactly what was going to happen, knew exactly what would happen to each character, and watched as it all unfolded. Let's look at the characters: Well you've got the main character, Jake Sully. Why do we like him. Well... we're supposed to? He's crippled? His brother died? My point is that he doesn't do anything that makes him likable, we're just supposed to. Then we have the stereotypical, old, ignorant, overly violent, ruthless army commander who is just going to go in and take what he wants. There's also the young gun CEO of everything, who is equally as bad as the general, but not as violent. Also considering it takes 7 years to get to the planet, how young was this guy when he was named CEO? Seems like you'd want someone with more experience. Then there's not one, but two powerful women; one in charge of the Avatars and the other is a pilot. Which leads me to a question. The pilot lady is in the middle of a battle in which they're killing the blue people (who look suspiciously similar to us humans) and she says the phrase "This isn't what I signed up for." and left.... What exactly, were you expecting to do? Did they leave "Fighting" out of the job description for the army? Kind of ridiculous in my opinion. Basically what I'm saying is that there's no characterization in this story, and they really don't think things out at all. Also, when controlling the Avatar, and you get shot or something you and your Avatar will be affected, so why can the paraplegic make his Avatar move? I mean, it doesn't really make sense, they just add unnecessary complications to the story. And people say that it's anti-corporation and it's about preserving life, but if you recall the reason they are trying to obtain this unobtainium (really James, that's the best you could do?) is because the worlds economy is in the tank. So Jake Sully pretty much screws the entire world by sabotaging this multi-trillion dollar project because some blue folks couldn't let them destroy this tree to get the stuff that powers it. I mean, how do they even know that the unobtanium powers anything, they have no electricity, how do they have a concept of powering something? Oh well, just another terrible excuse for a plot so that they can make a visually "stunning" movie and make millions. I mean, it's a purple tree people, not that amazing.