Incomplete Artistic Brilliance

Rating: 5/10 (10 February 2010)

The hype surrounding this movie is not unmerited - the visual effects are stunning, and offer a look into the future of the film industry. Cameron's enormous budget funded the most spectacular creation of a foreign plant and people, creating features so lifelike it drew the audience into the lush, vivid world of Pandora. Unfortunately, for all the hype and enormity of the budget, Cameron failed to find a screenplay that complimented his visual artistic brilliance. I admit that it would have been nearly impossible to find a storyline as descriptive as the world Cameron created, but he could have at least tried. There is minimal character development, and the story relies too heavily on preconceived stereotypes from the audience. Hence, the title of my post "Incomplete Artistic Brilliance"; movies are a unique form of artistry because they are most capable of affecting the senses we use in daily life, and Cameron fails to fill anything but the visual sense. The ultimate test of this movie will be time, since ten years from now productions of this visual level will be commonplace, though with far superior plots, diminishing Avatar's revolutionary appearance.