a new sort of visual experience

Rating: 6/10 (9 March 2014)

Avatar set a new standards for movies even beside the SF genre, in the same way that Matrix had done a decade earlier. Watching Avatar in 3D has been one of rare occasions when cinema theater turned into a place of magic.
Whether you like James Cameron's output or not is of lesser importance here. The whole industry and millions of fans awaited this release and he fulfilled the expectations. Avatar was obviously made to be seen in 3D and the world (or worlds) depicted in it are spectacular.
As far as the story is concerned, things haven't been as exciting as the visuals. A lot of people claim there had been some kind of higher message in Avatar. The only one i might think of is the guilt about the treatment of North American Indians by the authorities of what today is their homeland. Otherwise this has been another SF thriller with a lot of nice action scenes.