A Movie You Must See in the Cinema!

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2009)

This is a film that you need to see on the big screen. The bigger, the better. This movie is James Cameron new "epic" and anything less that a large screen will not do it justice. The special effects are staggering, even if they are CGI and Motion-Capture. At times, Cameron blurs the points of what is real and what is computer generated. Sigourney Weaver is very good as a humane scientist and gives the films best performance, even if scenery chewing villain Stephen Lang comes a honourable second. Now that I have said that the special effects are indeed special (the planet of Pandora is staggering; every little insect is down to a tee, nothing is missed) and should (nay, will) win all the awards at the Acadamy Awards, lets delve into its weak points. First off, the story is not Earth shatteringly brilliant and has been done many, many times before in different settings and if the love story is redundant at least is doesn't take up to much screen time and the final battle fully compensates for that. Also, most of the performances range from the okay (Sam Worthington) to the bland (Michelle Rodriguez). All in all, a movie well worth seeing, but only at the cinema.