What a waste of my time and money....

Rating: 1/10 (16 February 2010)

SPOILER ALERT
I had to register simply to add my voice to those people who thought Avatar was rubbish.
Effects : pretty good actually. Story : I'm sorry?
Evil corporation is on a weird planet called Pandora to mine something called Unobtanium(!) which is apparently really really really expensive and therefore all means are justified to obtain it. This includes shooting natives of said planet. Marine who can't walk (No public healthcare option then) is drafted in to replace his dead brother in science program so he can control an alien body to communicate with natives.
Idiot marine with no training gets in with natives where highly trained scientists could not (as he's A Warrior - something the scientists could never have thought up). He trains to be a native warrior - cue awesome effects for a very long time.
I kinda lost interest here but it surprisingly turns out the Marine chief on the planet is a nutter who ends up trying to kill all the natives. Marine Who Can't Walk decides to protect the natives and handily becomes Super Warrior Native via a couple of plot devices crudely inserted into the narrative.
Big battle - evil marine chief dies - planet saved - Marine Who Can't Walk becomes totally alien via other crudely inserted plot device.
The effects were awesome, but the film was non-existent without the effects.
Zero character development. Huge leaps of faith required to maintain disbelief. There's a scene where the good guys are rescued and fly away in a stolen helicopter. Badass Marine Dude shows how hard he is by shooting at them with a handgun instead of saying "After them in the other 30 helicopters!"
Crappy dialogue. "The Sky-people(!) killed their mother" - Mother = Planet
1 dimensional characters ripped off from countless other films. 1.5 hours too long, I got bored and started looking at my watch after about an hour. It's been said previously but "Dances with Wolves, done badly, in space" with a few characters from Aliens thrown in. Machinery bad : Nature good. Unobtanium, it's called unobtanium.
I cannot explain how annoyed I am that my wife and I paid £10 each to watch this pile of pap.