This week’s film is the recent sensation that is Cameron's Avatar, critically to be a marvel beyond its time, and it has become the highest grossing film of all time (making $2.605 billion within 41 days). It has been declared as the Star wars of its generation and has captivated audience’s world wide...
The plot: the film is set in the early 22nd century on the rich, Earth like moon of Pandora, in the process of a mining operation, the colonial humans come across an indigenous humanoid species (the Na'vi), who just so happen to be located upon the richest deposit of the priority mineral. In a bid to relocate them diplomatically a program is set up that allows humans to take control of Na'vi bodies and join the people and convince them to leave. This plan is not welcomed by the sadistic head of security, Col.Quaritch, who is seemingly hell bent obliterating the Na'vi completely.
While on the Avatar program, Jake Sully (our main protagonist), becomes so connected with the Na'vi that he begins to prefer his new life and eventually decides to stop Quaritch himself before it is too late. After diplomatic strategies fail, Quaritch rolls in a huge fleet of gunships to destroy the population, but what he has not counted on the deity of the Na'vi being all too real. Jake, with the help of Eywa (the deity), amasses a huge force consisting of the almost all of the moons life forms and the outcome is a spectacular action scene. After a good old fashioned one-on-one between Quaritch (in a combat suit) and Sully (as a Na'vi), the Col. is killed and the humans are shipped off from Pandora and back to Earth.
Views: The film its self is very long, personally I prefer this as it gives the audience a more realistic feel of this new world as it is not cut off after one and a half hours. The CGI in this film is simply spectacular there are no two ways about it; Cameron's attention to detail has proved that there are still some people in the world that know how to spend $200million effectively. One the other hand, it suffers from a very weak plot line of Jake falling in love and changing sides etc... A story we have seen in many other productions in the past (E.G: Lion King 2, Stardust (to a point)). But Cameron has managed to compensate for the lack of depth with the stunning visual effects and even a new language. It may well be possible to relate to the characters and become almost emotionally attached to some of them despite the story as some of them are quite literally put through hell, but personally I did not get this effect.
To conclude, Avatar is a visually stunning film though it lacks in the plot department, though i feel this can be forgiven when looking at the film's other good points, which are abundant in number
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