New Star Wars, or Cowboy and Indians, or ....

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2010)

It's obvious within watching this 3D movie for the first 5 minutes, that this movie is breakthrough in cinematic expression in the class like the Star Wars was in the '70s.
The tone of the story for the first 1/4 of the movie makes you feel like you might be watching another dark tale of ostracized society like the one depicted in Matrix. I was thinking, oh, here we go again, darkness sold as "realism", or a story driven plot. Then 3/4 way into the story, it was like is it another cowboy and Indian movie, where the cowboys with modern weapons levels the indians who're basically fighting with bows and arrows. Then the complete surprise came in the last quarter of the movie where the cowboys are actually shown as the bad guys. There's no mistake that the "Sky People" depicted in this movie are "Americans" and their corporate greed, and military industrial complex has formed a fascist state of arrogance and insensitivity to any rights of others in the name of profit and control. I won't go into the spoilers of how the movie ends, but it's surprising that an American director (okay he's Canadian, but..) would take such objective view of his own country.
This is a movie that comes once in a life time, and is easily one of the top 10 movies of the last decade. I believe 3D experience will become the norm in future movies until 3D becomes a dirty word like so many over commercialized technology has become. Thumbs up for James Cameron.