Excellent special effects alone cannot convert this bad movie into a good one.

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2009)

You will surely be mesmerized by the visual scenes in James Cameron's Avatar.But it's not the script that hooks and magnetizes you.I feel that special effects for that matter are the trappings used to embellish a movie and they work only if a movie has a rock-solid base content. Unfortunately, Avatar gives more preference to special effects, while the writing takes a complete backseat.Avatar is merely a long, boring, silly and expensive excuse to find a new type of movie.Dialogues are irritating with nothing new and exciting to offer. James Cameron has undoubtedly put in a lot of effort and hard work into his new movie Avatar, whether it's the costumes, settings, and special effects.There's no denying that James Cameron's intentions are genuine and noble, but, seriously, did the Oscar winning director of Titanic got carried away by special effects? No doubt, the basic idea sounds interesting and the viewer would love to be a participant in this movie but what comes across is amateurish.Unfortunately, the script is way below average. The story is nonsensical, the story lacks soul, you don't feel for any single character in the movie. James Cameron as a story teller fails big time. The first half is never ending, but towards the end it gets even more boring. Imagining life many years from now is exciting, but what unfolds on the screen in the second half is probably equivalent to a third degree torture. It painfully drags, the special effects although great, outshines the story and you no more care for any of the characters. The special effects too starts to get monotonous towards the end. 30 minutes into the second half, you desperately await the end for the credits to roll. Yes, it's that bad! In short, Avatar is yet another major disappointment of 2009. A utter waste of so much money spent on this never ending tale. This futuristic tale has absolutely no future! On the whole,Avatar rests on a thin plot and that would curtail it's reach to a major extent.