Very ambitious but no outstanding plot

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2019)

"Avatar" tells the story of a soldier who replaces his dead brother in an avatar program built to examine and influence a foreign species on a foreign planet. As he learns more and more about their life and culture, he begins to question the motives of his bosses and switches sides.
You can only honor all the visual effort and work that wys put into this film. I didn't watch it on a big screen but I can imagine that it is an overwhelming experience, visually. Unfortunately, I have to say that the plot is not equally convincing. What you get is more or less a story told several times before packed in a mediocre action movie. Some of the cultural aspects reach a bit beyond that but all in all this could well be your average action title wasn't it for the immense budget and effects.
All in all it is still worth a watch because it was a milestone in filmmaking and develops its magic from time to time but it is not as big a movie as you would expect it from such a production.