My 294th Review: Meh...

Rating: 7/10 (23 December 2009)

This will win a truckload of prizes, and Roger Ebert compared it to watching Star Wars, and he does know what he's talking about, so why couldn't we get that feeling too?
We enjoyed the spectacle but weren't moved.
It's an huge film in that it is serious eye candy but when my heart and mind are not left on Pandora isn't it an empty feast? It may be the biggest and most spectacular blowout at the movies (And the 3D was good) but is this really the best film of this or any other decade?
The anthropologists did an OK job but I never really got under the skin of the culture and so what we get is just about a retelling of a Man Called Horse and the Native Indian experience.
All in all, fun, but for us it lacks that special feeling that makes the spectacle into a great experience...
RE-EDIT: I have just watched the BlueRay DVD and enjoyed this much more: I hadn't realised how much darker a film looks in 3D on the DVD the colors explode and the whole thin comes to life - really enjoyed it this time. Still not classic, in my opinion, but what an improvement!