Well that was a ride

Rating: 8/10 (28 March 2018)

I was going to headline this review as "Avatar as envisioned by Steven Spielberg" but that would be unfair. By now everyone knows that it's a movie based on a very dear novel by Ernest Cline. But I don't need to read the book to realize this movie left the book's lovers disappointed. Characters weren't as fleshed out as they were probably supposed to be, and there's too many movie clichÃ©s that are supposed to be homages.
Well not every movie by Spielberg has to be a "Schindler's List", but this definitely fell under "Minority Report" category, as the fast pace wouldn't give enough time to develop characters -- or develop our care for them. Since most of the action is animated it really felt like Avatar, except with a freakton of more product placement (even more than Minority Report, damn).
What I haven't seen mentioned yet is something that irked me: Alan Silvestri just recycled many of his soundtrack motifs for this movie. Again i don't know if this was intended as homage, but I thought it was too corny.
Nonetheless, damn if I didn't feel giddy as a little boy when i saw that Holy Hand Grenade being activated. This movie is a rollercoaster where the visuals are more than the plot, and it begs to be rode again and again.