Great entertainment but typical predictable and unimaginative ending

Rating: 7/10 (4 February 2010)

Great as a fantasy special effects movie and is thoroughly enjoyable as long as you don't think. The movie goes a long way to stress how horrible aggressive, cruel and war-like humans are and then tries to portray a different, better, and more peaceful society.
So the solution to the conflict between the two cultures? Get the peaceful ones to fight and kill and feel good about it. Now how is that better or different than the humans killing to get their way?
All such anti-violence movies resolve problems by using - you guessed it - war and killing. Of course most will leave feeling the humans deserved their fate - so much for the message of needing a more caring society.
So come on Mr. Cameron and other filmmakers: For once come up with an ending that does not involve ending violence with violence. By overcoming violence through some other means (see Gandhi for example). Now that would demand real creativity, much imagination and truly thinking outside the box. Make your movie consistent with the message being portrayed rather than falling back on old warn-out clichés of peaceful folks overcoming difficulties by the violence and killing they condemn in their enemy. Add fire to fire and you get more fire. How about meeting fire with some tender compassionate water next time.