Avatar

Avatar, the new movie from the director of Terminator and Titanic, occurs midway through the 22nd century. Jake Sully(Sam Worthington), a wheelchair-bound ex-marine takes up the mission of his dead brother, with the promise of getting his legs back if he helps the government in achieving the mission. He travels across the universe to Planet Pandora.

Pandora is inhabited by a tribal race called the Na’vi. Jake is sent in to learn their ways so that he can help relocate them and the greedy humans can take over their habitat, which contains a large ore of Unobtainium (yes, the material used to build a vessel in the 2003 movie, The Core). Avatars, are artificially created Na'vi bodies, into which humans can transfer their consciousness using Avatar technology. Early in the film, Jake, in his Na'vi body gets lost in Pandora, and is rescued by the daughter of the Na'vi chief. The rest of the movie is about how Jake becomes one of them, and saves Pandora from human greed.

I liked:

1. The beauty of Pandora: Pandora looked like Al Gore's dream planet, a total tropical beauty. The many legged horses, helicopter-like bugs, terrifying tigers ... all of them were created with utmost detail.

2. The war: The war between the Na'vi and the future machines of humans was well done. The director took no sides. Equal damage was done on both the sides.

I hated:

1. The story: The story of this movie is not exceptional. Lot of attention was paid to the graphics and the creation, but the story was too simple. With all the time and money that went into the picture, I expected a better story line.

Finally, the movie is a visual masterpiece, but it would have been awesome if it had a worthy concept or story line.

My Rating: 3/5

My Verbal rating: All the movie has is visuals. 2D did not entertain me. You might want to try the 3D version.

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