Meh. Great graphics and the storyline was OK, but the direction was all wrong

Rating: 4/10 (15 February 2019)

I saw Avatar in the theater when it was released. I thought it was a lot of fun and exciting to watch. However, I found the story to be sub-par and more of a copy of the destruction of indigenous tribes from all over the world. Not that is a bad thing, but it was boring because it made the story predictable an unoriginal.
The graphics are great and I thought seeing it on the big screen was well worth the time and cost. The movie deserves to be played on the best televisions if you are watching at home. Watching it on a small pad or phone really doesn't do it justice.
I do have problems with some of the graphics and a perfect example is fire and how it burns. The atmosphere is 20% heavier than Earth and flames shouldn't react the way they are depicted with the higher carbon dioxide. There is less than 8% oxygen in the air. I'm not sure the director really thought this one out.
The armored-mech units also move because they need to and this is deus ex machina and a writing fallacy. It is cheap and poorly executed idea. Sure one could say that they have better technology to make them react this way, but if you think of the physics of large machines like this, in the animal kingdom too, larger creatures move slower but are more powerful. I found it unappealing to see this in the movie.
The direction is all wrong because the movie uses deus ex machina through out the entire movie. Things happen because the writers/director force them to happen. The movie doesn't flow naturally and it is oddly pieced together with scenes which are filler.
Overall, its a good movie, but ranking it? That's difficult. A+ for the graphics but a D and C grade on writing and direction with a lower mark for the lack of logic.