The most overrated film of the year.

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2009)

This must be the most overrated movie I have seen for a long time. Not only the 8.8 after the first 70.000 something votes, but also in terms of publicity and especially prize. I can go to the movies and see 3 both greater AND smaller films for the prize that I would have to pay to see Avatar in 3D. It is simply absurd. The other day I chose to spend that third of the Avatar- amount on something so much better, called Synechdoche, New York. But for the review. Well, on the plus side, there are definitely some absolutely amazing and stunning effects. The 3D gives some extreme possibilities, and you have to hand it to Mr. Cameron; he is exploiting that to perfection. Also, I'd like to see how Sam Worthington follows this up in Clash of the titans, with a so much greater cast than this mediocre movie. Names such as Ralph Fiennes and the danish Mads Mikkelsen are great actors. Worthington was brilliant in Avatar, I must say, and one of the other few things working was definitely the love story between the two - although (as the rest of the movie) so incredibly foreseeable. And that leads to the huge amount of minuses in this so-called masterpiece. After 15 minutes of this movie, you actually knew exactly what was going to happen. That's one. During the movie, you get to KNOW, and I mean in like psychologically know, maybe 3-4 characters. Ironically the two Avatars in the leading roles, and possibly also Weaver, but you have to suspect that it's mostly due to her good acting, rather than the directing and the script. Other than that the characters are seen before, they are acting badly and they do not interest me the least bit. Caricated, if that's an English word. And what's the effect of a foreseeable storyline and some lousy character-drawing? You are not emotionally involved, I never tended to cry or shout or jump or smile or anything. I was simply just looking at the screen because of the effects and the acting of Zoe and Sam (like the sound of those names). Last but not least, we've seen this story in so many films over the years, that I just can't give Cameron any credit, and that he spices the whole thing up with numeral references to American foreign politics, the war in Iraq for example, and stuff like it. But my biggest minus I give to the type-casted Rodriguez, who Cameron must've loved in Lost since he decided to give her the same character to play, and only clichés as lines. It's pathetic and he ought to know it. As it's pathetic that the rating on this so-called world biggest film-site is 8.8. Hurry up and change it folks, don't fall for populism and lame entertainment, but raise yourselves to at least decent levels of criticism.