Not quite great

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2009)

This was a great movie when it was called Dances with Wolves. The story was unoriginal and frankly the dialog was hackneyed and boring. The direction was poor, Cameron seems to have forgotten (if he ever knew) that live actors need direction too. Also Cameron is stuck in the 80s and 90s action genre where he feels the need to punch up the film with one liners, that always fall flat, which is bad, but several times he held for a laugh which never came. If you like effects; the film looked like a very good video game. Now, I didn't hate it, but feel I have to be negative because so many people are building this up as one of the greatest films of the last 10-30 years.