Christmas Turkey Comes Early

Rating: 3/10 (14 December 2009)

Yes, it looks amazing. I don't understand how you can say the plot is flat and there are no characters and then give it an 8/10. Sure, for 45 minutes, I was going 'wow'. But then you get used to it. And you need something else to keep you going.
How about some character motivation? I didn't feel like I knew any of the characters by the end of the movie. They were action movie clichés which seems to indicate we don't need to know anything about them. All we need to know is the bad guy has big scars on his head. Apparently, that's enough to explain why he wants to snuff out blue people so much.
This movie didn't know what it was about. The US war in Vietnam? Native Americans being removed from their land by high tech invaders? Saving the planet? The world wide web?
The way the web was lumped into this so crudely just made me sigh. It makes The Matrix look street. I know Cameron is old but come on.
Whereas The Dark Knight kept people guessing, nothing in this movie happens which you wouldn't expect to happen, at exactly the point it happens.
I'd say it was very disappointing if it wasn't for the fact this is pretty much as bad as I expected it to be. In the preview screening I was at, quite a few people decided to make for their last train rather than sit through the predictable finale.