Great Effects and... well not that much else.

Rating: 4/10 (2 April 2017)

Avatar was the massive hit of 2010 and became the highest grossing film of all time. It tells the story of a handicapped man who travels to Pandora with the military and soon develops sympathies with the Natives of the planet. Let's start with the positives. The effects are extremely impressive and still kind of holds up (not completely but mostly) the design of the planet and the creatures is great and is beautiful to look at. The design of the human machinery while a little generic still looks good and the action scenes are not quick-cut or shaky-cam which is always nice. However, that is where the positives end. While the effects are impressive you can kind of tell it's CGI so it's difficult to get immersed into the story. The characters are extremely bland, you got some nice guy as the main character, most of the other humans are evil just because. The main love interest is just a strong character that is cool and that's about it. Another native is an antagonist because he doesn't trust the human (Jake Sully) and so many other clichéd characters. The acting is kind of bland and nothing worthy of remembrance. The cinematography is all right but is nothing worthwhile or interesting. The film is so filled to the brim with clichés that it's ridiculous. While the final action scene is easy to follow and well filmed
it's boring. There is no tension for the characters as the protagonist is perfect and the characters that die you really don't care about at all because they are not worth remembering and the scene feels clunky and slow. So in a nutshell, Avatar has great effects but everything else falls short.