Pinnacle of movie-making

Rating: 10/10 (11 May 2004)

This is quite simply the best action movie of all time. Not because of the action, although it is stellar even 14 years later, but because the movie pauses to explore its characters, and includes quiet contemplative moments in between all the action, so that by the movie's end, I really felt that I just concluded a long and difficult journey with the characters, instead of having watched them make their way through a few action scenes.
Bravo, Cameron!