Visually stunning at the expense of a well told story

Rating: 5/10 (31 December 2009)

Must be a trend these days. Dazzle us with CGI and put the story telling on the back burner. Not sure why some here have said it's the best movie ever. I guess they value CGI more than the other elements of a movie.
I will say that this movie was indeed visually stunning, but the story was WAY too predictable - what we did to the Native Americans, we also do to the people on Pandora. Greed will prevail, for the shareholders, etc. And why not explain what the unobtanium was rather than a fleeting "it costs a lot of money." That's what brought us to Pandora to start with.
Tons of $$ was spent making this movie, but after seeing it I'd say most of it was spent on visuals. Too bad.
See it? Sure, but you'll likely only use the visual part of your brain, everything else can be put in hibernation mode.