Avatar: Movie Review

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Directed by James Cameron, one of the biggest names in directing movies with badass effects – Titanic, and the Three Terminator Movies, Avatar was his brainchild, a movie that he wrote, and had been dreaming of since his 20’s, and the the project saw ten years of technology advancements before Cameron felt it was nearly good enough to shoot it.

Wired has a good article about he first wanted to be a director here.

Starring Sam Worthington as Jake Sully (fresh off Terminator Salvation),

Zoe Saldana as Neytiri (off one of the biggest movies of the year - Star Trek),

alongside Michelle Rodriguez as pilot Trudy(LOST, Fast and Furious), whom I read died in every movie she was in this year hahaha.

and dweeb Joel Moore as Norm (Dodgeball),

Avatar is a Pocahontas style, Surrogates themed movie.

Why do I say so?

Jake Sully is a former marine who is shipped to the planet Pandora, an exotic planet brimming with crazy colors, plants and wildlife, in place of his deceased twin brother, under the Avatar project – a purely scientific excursion in which alien DNA and human DNA are mixed to form alien-human hybrids, in hopes of getting on the good side of the locals.

The objective of the project – to convince the locals to move out of their homes, as the corporate dogs are there to mine for an extremely valuable mineral.

Sully eventually falls for Neytiri, the local charged with guiding Sully my the Na’Vi ways. Diplomacy fails, as the locals stubbornly cling on to their ancestral village. Like every other imperialist themed movie, they bring in the big guns, and burn the locals out.

Calling on the other tribes of natives on the island, Sully leads them in one last battle against the scourges, to no avail. Eywa, the mystical god that the locals pray to intervenes, and sends the local beasts to their aid, in a brilliant showdown of Man vs Nature.

A very predictable, and easily comprehensible story no doubt, but the movie was gorgeous. The character’s faces took millions to develop,

as Cameron had an eye of a perfectionist, and they had to look as lifelike as possible, for the movie to work. The visuals were utterly gorgeous, and the line between the real world and CGI was blurred beyond recognition.

Rendering of the movie took 1 petabyte (1,000 gigabytes), no wonder!

A scene from The 20th Century Fox's Avatar (2009)

Images copyright Twentieh Century Fox Film Corp.

Music was epic, as expected, perfectly suiting each and every frame. Acting was good, passable. I guess the point of the movie was to submerse you in a whole different world, to let you get lost in something to plausible, so surreal that you’re almost there, breathing in toxic Pandoran atmosphere, riding banshees and running for your lives from crazy panther-like creatures.