Movie Review of Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana, Michelle Rodriquez, Stephen Lang
Review:
Avatar, James Cameron’s 3-D sci-fi blockbuster is three hours of pure adventure, thrill and edge of the seat action. A stereoscopic treat set in 2154 AD, Avatar is Jake Sully’s (Sam Worthington) expedition to Pandora, to secure mining of Unobtanium, a valuable mineral that would be the solution to earth’s energy crisis by infiltrating its native population the Na‘vi.
The movie opens with disruption in RDA Corporation’s mining in Pandora by its inhabitant species the Na’vi. Jake Sully, a disabled former marine is chosen to take place of his executed twin in the battle. Since Pandora’s atmosphere is not conducive for human survival, scientists have created Avatars, hybrids of human and Na’vi DNA that are controlled by their corresponding genetic matches. During an attack Jake is separated from his group and is rescued by Neytiri, a beautiful female indigene. Neytiri takes Jake to Hometree, abode of clan Omaticaya, where he gets closer to the clan and Neyitiri while learning their ways of life. What begins as a mission to gain information about the clan in order to aid the military forces slowly changes his loyalties as he learns about colonial ambitions of corporate head Selfridge. Consequently, he thwarts a human attempt to destroy the Tree of Voices. Consequently he is deemed a traitor and given only an hour before he is disconnected from his Avatar, to convince Omaticaya to leave before the Hometree is destroyed. When the clan finds out his actual mission he is imprisoned. This is followed by a heart rending struggle of the protagonist to convince the Na’vi of his true allegiance and lead the epic war that would decide the destiny of Pandora and all those who dwell on it.
Avatar’s panoramic settings in the fictional world of Pandora complete with a life and culture of its own and the larger-than life characters are its theatrical assets. The use of virtual cameras in motion-capture technology makes everything come alive to the viewer. In all Avatar is technology, science fiction and drama at its cinematic best.
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