For a movie that took twelve years to make, one expects high quality, good plot, compelling characters, and excellent special effects. I am happy to say that this movie qualified for 3.956667 of these standards.
The movies main character, Jake Sully, a paraplegic jarhead who takes control of a specially designed native body, was intelligent, funny, and altogether, a normal idiot. He takes the watcher through a very Disney Pocahontas type plot and falls in love and eventually saves the day. The main female lead, Neytiri, was a strong, princess type character, whose no bullshit type attitude causes the audience to back her up and fall in love with the world she represents. And the world...
Oh.
My.
God.
For a CGI world, complete with floating mountains, it was so realistic that you often forgot that it's, well, not. The effects were spectacular: the 3D was realistic, though at the beginning it focuses your eyes for you, which gets a little annoying; the CGI was beautiful, realistic; the few sets were intrinsically designed and integrated into the world... There are so few faults that all I can say is... wow.
But it does have faults. It is cliche to a fault, though beautifully executed. Very predictable, but entertaining. The unattainable mineral, unobtainium (No I am not making this up.) distracts quite a bit from the seriousness of several important scenes. (Though the film does need its fair share of laughs, don't get me wrong. I just don't think this was the best way to do it.) The boss battle was a bit drawn out to the point of overextension, and perhaps it was somewhat unrealistic.
What did bug me a little is the fact that the movie was very anti-industrial, anti-gun, anti- anything that is made of metal and that harms nature. Which I agree with on a much lesser scale. I am not anti-gun, and I am not anti-industry, but I do believe humans should take care of natural resources and not kill natives.
But overall, I'd give the movie a 5 star review. That is, if I were a professional film critic.
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