Another James Cameron Masterpiece

Rating: 6/10 (30 January 2010)

2009, a year for movies, though most of them bad. Granted I did enjoy four movies the past year: Star Trek, Up, Coraline and this movie. Avatar, Directed by Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Aliens director James Cameron is, by far my favourite of the four 2009 favourites I mentioned.
With stinkers Like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, 2012, Monsters VS Aliens, Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li, DragonBall Evolution and Termanator Salvation among others being released this past year, we've been treated with explosions, McG's bad directing, leg Humping robots, inaccurate science, poor adaptations and stupid pop culture jokes littered around. Granted, for every stinker there is a gem in the rough (see also Watchmen, Ponyo, Sherlock Holmes, The Hangover, District 9 and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and you'll see what I mean) now Avatar, an awesomely beautiful yet incredibly over-hyped, movie is one of those Gems. Now that I've got that out of the way, Lets start with the review: Now Cameron didn't seem to waste money or time with this movie. As the visuals, acting and story all seem to have taken the crew their sweet time with. The cast, which consists of Terminator Salvation star Sam Wothington (and the only thing that was good about that movie aside from the Arnold cameo near the end) and Alien star Sigourney Weaver as well as Michelle Rodriguez (from The Fast and The Furious), Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldana (from Star Trek) and C. C. H. Pounder. All of whom are perfect in their roles. The Story, though the basic people-come-to-another-planet-to-destroy-their-way-of-living plot line, is actually carried out pretty well with character development throughout.
The Visuals, from Weta, ILM and Framestore along with BUF, Blur Studios Ubisoft's Hybride Technologies, Pixel Liberation Front, Hydralyx and Lola Visual Effects don't disappoint either. There were a few things that bothered me about the effects (The lighting in some scenes, movement of the Mech suits *way too weightless, though these are people controlling them* and the Background Na'vi). though these are just minor flaws that do not in any case distract from the viewing pleasure.
So yeah after seeing it two times, I'm glad to say that the movie didn't disappoint either time. In fact, you'll enjoy it. And remember to stay for the final fight scene. It's awesomely awesome (and I have no idea how that made sense).