Simply beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2010)

Well it's been quite a long time before i decided to write a review of Avatar. I just had to. It's quite a picture.
We all have bumped onto Cameron's previous pieces, starting from The Terminators and finishing with Titanic. This is something different, but nevertheless from the first glance promised to be nothing shy of a ground breaking revolution. As it is the most visually fascinating creation i have ever seen. After reading tons and tons of critiques about how unoriginal and predictable Avatar is, i have to tell, the story Cameron came up with is just marvelous and fresh. To sum up, i would just say: old idea in a brand new form. The story is the most important aspect here and it would be hard to invent something as immense and splendid and original as Avatar.
What stroke me the most was how current and real the problems in the movie are, taking into account the whole destruction of rainforests for the same economic reasons. To quote Jake Sully: "See the world we come from. There's no green in there. They killed their mother. And they're gonna do the same here." This should conclude the whole point.
The movie itself is just astonishingly beautiful. The whole nature is created gorgeously. It really has so much more than meets the eye and should be seen plenty of times to gather the whole emotion of how well all the environment is done. Pandora paralizes your mind. No quarter. Just seeing my favourite scene in the movie kills my mind: the first flight. I cannot even describe it. Too stunning. Too beautiful. And the soundtrack is beyond great and fits with the movie perfectly.
Cast is first-class too. Worthington portrais Jake really well, but the real praise has to go to Saldana, who played Neytiri. She puts so much heart and soul into her character and makes her so believable. Also, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang do a wonderful job. As do all the others.
I believe that this is the ultimate 3D film. And, as everyone seems to think, it's not all about visual effects and fighting, it's the created nature that jumps off the screen. If you watch it in HQ, it's truly extraordinary how well the forest and environment has been created. I really don't think i am going to see something so great and amazing for quite some time to come. And that's all that matters.
PS. The extended version running 3 hours is absolutely phenomenal, first it offers so much more for the fans and secondly it explains more thoroughly some important points in the movie. (2011)