Superficial and Sorely Unoriginal

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2010)

Avatar starts as an intriguing story about a crippled man traveling to a foreign planet. This subplot of a man struggling with a disability was the only realistic and intelligent piece of the film. This was the only thing keeping the movie alive in my opinion, and it popped up very infrequently. Now that I've got off my chest, what worked for the film, let me tell you what I thought sucked about Avatar.
A: Boring and predictable storyline. Every character, every plot twist, and every concept was taken from another stupid action flick. Man goes to planet to work for government, man goes undercover in alien civilization, man falls in love with princess, man turns against government, aliens find out man was originally from government, man redeems himself. SO unoriginal, so plain, I almost cried at the lack of imagination in this story.
B: Lack of creative creature design. Though I must admit that the appearance of the plants and trees in Avatar were quite impressive, the creatures of the alien planet were all similar to things we find on Earth. The thing that attacks Jake Sully at the beginning looks like a large black panther. The big blue things look like rhinos. The Naavi look like tall blue people with cat eyes and teeth. The flying pterodactyl things looked like.... pterodactyls.
C: Terrible script. Do I need to explain my reasoning?
D: Average acting. No one performance was really very good. Sam Worthington was traditional action hero man. Sigourney Weaver was the same character she always is. The bad guy was a one dimensional villain. The nerdy guy had no quality other than nerdy. It was just SO cookie cutter action movie.
So folks, thats why I think Avatar is simply one of the most overrated movies of all time.