What a ripoff

Rating: 4/10 (16 January 2010)

First, the good. The visuals were truly stunning and I found myself totally immersed into the movie. For this, I would give a rating of 8 for the CGI. The rest of the movie scored a big fat zero for me, hence the score of 4.
Now, the bad. There were several unexplained scenes in the story like how Tsutey came to be such a good translator when all along, you get the impression that he hates the intruders, much less even care to learn their language. This movie is a ripoff of the Dances With Wolves storyline and there were ideas taken off Matrix as well. It scored really low on originality for me. Probably the only fresh idea was to put the entire setting on an alien world, which isn't exactly that new either.
The ugly. If you have read the Japanese manga One Piece, you will even find ideas taken from there. The "Sky People" term was taken verbatim from there. Yes, the Sky People in the comic also stole the lands from the native inhabitants and they were waging war against each other. The comic at least gave a new twist on how the Sky People and natives were living on islands in the sky (probably where the mountains in the sky idea in the movie came from). And can't they come up with a better name than Unobtainium? Really.