Avatar - Movie review

Rating: 8/10 (24 December 2017)

I remember see this movie in theaters marketed as "The ultimate 3D experience" that everyone has to go see it. This movie really surprised me when i watched in 2009, but upon rewatch, the movie it does has some flaws and is not perfect.
So "Avatar" is about a group of humans who go to the colony on a moon called Pandora, is a moon with a indigena species called the Na'vi. And the humans uses this bodies called Avatars in which they get inside in and they look like a Na'vi. The main protagonist of this movie is Jake Sully (Sam Worthington's character) who has the mission to interact and meet this aliens, in the way they think, their culture, etc.
James Cameron does something very risky with this film and is the fact of using green and blue screens to make the sets of Pandora, and use CGI for the Na'vi. This could potentially ruin your realistic film and turn it to a cartoon. But Cameron used very well, the visual effects here are amazing and very well done. And is well incorporated with the real human beings on set. I was very amazed while watching this movie seeing all this creatures and plants that are not real, and feeling that this are real living beings and feeling that Pandora exist in real life. I do feel like Pandora is a place that you can visit and makes this experience 10 times better. The look, sounds, lighting, and great work from the people that did the especial effects for this movie, made Pandora a very beautiful and unique place.
Moving on to the action sequences, this movie is recorded very well. The camerawork is good, and the sequences are exciting and breath taking. When you see Jake Sully or another character like Neytiri in danger, you feel that danger. Talking about characters, The Na'vi population feels like a real family, when you see them on screen, you care some much for this people that makes this movie more human. This movie delivers a lot of messages of the human raze and what we are as an species, for the important that our habitat is and how important is for us to take care of, which i found very powerful. The editing and directing of this film makes it in my opinion, one the best sci-fi movies of the past decade.
This film revolucionated something that is, in my opinion, very especial. And that is the 3D cinema. The 3D cinema before this movie was something that was very unique and expensive, not everyone could afford to pay to see a movie in 3D and it wasn't that good. Because those films were just made for 3D, and for experience things on 3D, but the films didn't have a very good story or a great character ark. But this movie was the one that said: "Hey, we can make a very good movie with great visual effects and make it for a great 3D experience"
Is a very good sci-fi movie with an unique vision that James Cameron nailed so well that this could potentially transform into a franchise. At least for me, i could watch a trilogy of this films.
Like every movie, this one has some flaws too. For example, number one, Stephen Lang was great in the movie, but his character was one that did a lot exposition. At the beginning of the film, he talks about the anatomy of the Na'vi and talked about how their weapons works, and is not that important actually, is just more info about a fictional alien specie. You can skip that part, and the movie will be the same. There are some passing issues in the first act and the end of the film, at least for me, is like a roller coaster emotionally. Sometimes the emotion is very high, and sometimes is on the ground.
In the end guys, "Avatar" is a very good movie with great characters, and beautiful visual effects. It does has some problems but that is to be expected in a film. So my recommendation is, watch it, is worth it.