Outstanding Effects Light Up Simple Story

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2010)

Avatar is indeed the most visually spectacular and colorful cinematic experience created to date - it's visual spectacle emboldens a fairly simple, pedestrian, and maybe even somewhat clichéd storyline. I'm sure there's umpteen posts that re-iterate the story as sort of a detraction or weakness in the movie, but it still works satisfactorily. Probably the only part of the movie that was hit or miss for me was the score and musical choices. I'm a traditionalist with music and score - enjoying orchestras and symphonies over song and beats. Anyway the visual achievement is so stunning it probably makes it a Best Picture Winner and deservedly so - the story only need be satisfactory and not impede.