It should have been a sci-fi documentary...

Rating: 4/10 (25 April 2018)

A perfect example of a movie that is abusing special effects. Layers over layers of CGI, more special and visual effects, more! Spend hundreds of millions of dollars, we need realistic effects! We suffer from obsessive-compulsive overused CGI disorder! etc etc.
Seriously, with all that CGI business, this could have been great if it aimed to another direction - a documentary; Instead of one-dimensional characters, one-dimensional plot and a one-dimensional storyline, try to make it more thrilling and interesting! Remember "Alien Planet" or the awesome series from "The future is wild"? That's what I'm talking about! Fantasy, imagination and science. So, I wanted to know about the gas giant planet Polyphemus and its tropical moon Pandora; I wanted to know about the spaceships that traveled there; I wanted to know more about the biology of the creatures and a possible classification of all the organisms, about the weather systems, pedology, geology etc. The movie barely tells you anything; sure, you could do some research and see the science behind "Avatar", but I wanted to hear this in the movie!
The characters are flat and forgettable. Actually I somehow enjoyed Stephen Lang' s performance here (Colonel Miles Quaritch). And that's it... everything on this movie SCREAMS Hollywood!!
So, it looks like it was a completely wasted potential. So much money spent... for nothing.