Avatar (2009)

4/5

The year is 2154 and the Earth’s resources are running dry so the RDA Corporation sets out on the mission to mine another planet named Pandora that's inhabited by peaceful humanoid creatures called Na’vi. To infiltrate these successfully the RDA use and recruit a paralysed ex-marine, Jake Sully, who controls through his mind a Na’vi that the RDA have artificially created. Jake finds himself more drawn in to the world and inhabitants of Pandora and begins to have feelings for one in particular. He must make the decision whether to help them or stay loyal to the mission. This fundamentally is a love story and of following one’s conscious in what’s right and wrong.

The movie is James Cameron's biggest adventure to date and the years of planning and making of the film paid off in terms of it taking nearly $3 billion world wide at the box office, making it the biggest motion picture of all time.

The visual effects are state of the art and in some scenes are breath taking with the 3-D - more so on cinema, which obviously cannot be appreciated the same on DVD. The performances are really irrelevant as they are over shadowed by the spectacular CGI. It did not do as well at the Oscars as first thought, been beaten by The Hurt Locker (directed by Cameron’s ex wife, Kathryn Bigelow) for Best Picture and Best Director, but did win Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.

Starring

Sam Worthington (Jake Sully)

Zoe Saldana (Neytiri)

Stephen Lang (Colonel Miles Quaritch)

Sigourney Weaver (Dr. Grace Augustine)

Michelle Rodriguez (Trudy Chacon)

USA Color 2 hr 42 mins Action / Sci-Fi / Adventure

Director

James Cameron

Written

James Cameron

cinematography