This WILL NOT create a new Sci – Fi cultural movement

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2009)

It is amazing that the movie of this sort gobbles up at least 300 million bucks in the middle of a financial meltdown, a product ,whose costs could support a whole set of economies , not to mention –even countries ? And Mr Cameron still believes that he is on top of the world ,e.g. that movie industry's calendar begins with before and after Titanic ? OK , the visuals are breath-taking , mind-boggling, absolutely amazing , and kudos to him for having engaged / commissioned the best and the brightest in the field, viz. ILM , Weta .etc. ,and the Oscars here are a given , but the idea of the movie – The Navis race , uncannily resembling the black Earthlings, on the distant Pandora , an Earth-like planet , living in total harmony with their planet and in direct communion with their ancestors , are to be wiped out by us , the ugly white - Christian – read – brutal – uncouth - dirty – and materialistic, egged on by the insatiable thirst for profits and profits alone , all encapsulated in the greedy boss in the form of G.Ribisi and ,who else but the ,again ,crazed military commander with an axe to grind with the Pandora's savages ? Am I to understand the message that this white brutal ugly Americans and oppressive western European males are always messing up with the ways of , say – Iraqis , Afgans or their separate tribal habits and heritage ,and foiling ,worse, desecrating their ' innocent 'ways, their absolute love they have always had for everyone ( Funny , I have never heard Soviets – e.g. Russian commies apologizing for their 'cultural ' proselytizing ?! ) .And the planet itself is teeming with life ,all again bearing a conspicuous resemblance to the one on Earth ,say ferns ,trees ,a sort of Jurrasic feel permeating the film , but I had expected to see some original,ugly ,Giger-like , terrifying forms and creatures ,but no dice ,it is a multi-million dollar investment ,and , kiddies , come in mighty droves ,it is your beloved hippo , a bit changed and coloured , and the horsey ,a bit changed and coloured , and there are dragons aplenty ,and they can be tamed ! Mr. Cameron should have followed his own gut-tearing Aliens , but ,alas, it is those ugly investors again ,demanding the cash torrent,not , god forbid , a trickle , so have no fear, kiddo ,and bring your mommies and sisters as well , we'll have fun ! The final battle is astounding ,but the Navis winning with spears and arrows against robotized walkers, jet helicopters and all sort of various mean-looking killing machines ,that's a long one , I really hoped they might throw dragons ' urine on soldiers ! All in all , a visually perfect Sci-Fi odyssey ,but erroneously based on the Gea's theory of the mother Earth , Al Gore's pseudo-scientific babble ( we had fouled up the Earth ,but lost on Pandora , and , sadly we are going back to the oceans of black and grey goo !) ,and I really wonder if there weren't some Greenpeace beatniks involved in this ! I would recommend District 9 more , incomparably cheaper and more up-to-date with current problems worldwide ( racism, criminal genetics etc. ) .