Has the feel of "The Emerald Forest"

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2010)

If you can, rent The Emerald Forest. It's about a small American boy in South America, kidnapped by an forgotten indigenous tribe, and raised as an Indian. The boy grows up and eventually falls in love with Kachiri, a girl in his clan. All is beauty and serenity, until one day white men invade, and steal the women to turn them into prostitutes, Kachiri included, and then it became a battle of primitives vs. guns. Very similar in terms of general thematics, and how beauty can be found in nature. Of course, there were no soldiers, no heavy artillery and no 3-D, which, by the way, was pretty shallow throughout Avatar's inordinate length, and I would be a whole lot happier if someone would invent contact lens that would work for 3-D instead of those cumbersome glasses. Technically, though, the film in magnificent. And while the story is noticeably predictable, and there was a sense of video gamery afoot, all in all, Avatar is a gorgeous, feel-good movie that is never boring throughout its 162 minutes (though I can't wait for the 10-hour ultimate directors cut :)