Avatar - Recreating Abyss in Space

Rating: 5/10 (17 December 2009)

Avatar with all technology, animation, 3D, or 3D Fusion Camera system that you see in the movie is awesomely and technically very sound movie and there are no two ways about it. He has done it before with Abyss, Aliens, Terminator, and Titanic. Awesome, beautiful visuals, with the 3D, you could actually feel that the fireflies, were just above your head or the ashes were falling on you. We fell in love with Pandora, we fell in love with a Na'vi tribe.
One of the first gentle visuals of the movie are a jellyfish structured floating in the crisp air of Pandora. This jellyfish took me to Abyss, like i have this one earlier. Couldn't have forgotten this movie at all, one of my first movie in Sterling and was feeling cold not only because of the air conditioner, but also the all the visuals were under water.
Having the infrastructure and the time in place, the first half of the movie keeps showing the different parts of the world of Pandora, huge and massive trees, flying mountains, again we go back to the visual elements, post which where is the story in the movie? Story has all the elements of climate change, love story, terrorism, forbidden love, out-of-the-world action, betrayal, but where is the Cameroon punch? I was shifting in my chair, looking around , just to realise that there were three people sitting beside me, who never came back, after the interval was over. There were just too many cuts / jumps in the movie, and one could easily realise this, hope this in only in the Indian version.
The creatures in the movie are again awesome, DireHorse, a horse with six legs and Banshee the flying dragon type of monster, which can only be tamed by confronting it. The cast was good, Sam Warrington did a decent job as the Avatar, than himself. Sigourney Weaver looked old, and there is gujarati scientist working for the AVATAR program Dr. Max Patel. Favourite character is the Colonel Miles Quaritch, the main antagonist.
Overall, visuals are brilliant, worth an Oscar, but the story was completely a miss!!