Avatar
UK Release Date: 17 December 2009
Certification: 12A
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Stephan Lang, Joel David Moore, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington
Rating: 85%
Review:
Avatar, for me, is the best sci-fi movie that I have seen since I first watched the original Star Wars trilogy.
The lead performances from Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are excellent in Avatar. Sam Worthington plays a disabled ex-marine, Jake Sully, who takes the place of his brother on an exhibition to Pandora after his brother is shot and killed. Jake's role on the exhibition is to pilot a human-Na'vi hybrid, an avatar. Usually the Na'vi kill avatars but Neytiri (Zoe Saldana's character) is shown a sign from their deity, Eywa when she first encounters Jake's avatar. The leader of the Na'vi decides that Jake should be trained in the ways of the Na'vi. Jake learns the ways of the Na'vi and is embraced as one of them, before ultimately having to choose a side in the inevitable conflict between the humans and the Na'vi.
There are a couple of things that I thought were wrong with Avatar. First of all I didn't engage with the scenes showing mundane tasks of the humans, I much preferred watching the Na'vi. Secondly, there were multiple occasions when Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephan Lang) would have died in real life.
Overall though I absolutely loved Avatar and can't wait for the planned sequels.
Certification: 12A
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Stephan Lang, Joel David Moore, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington
Rating: 85%
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Avatar, for me, is the best sci-fi movie that I have seen since I first watched the original Star Wars trilogy.
The lead performances from Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are excellent in Avatar. Sam Worthington plays a disabled ex-marine, Jake Sully, who takes the place of his brother on an exhibition to Pandora after his brother is shot and killed. Jake's role on the exhibition is to pilot a human-Na'vi hybrid, an avatar. Usually the Na'vi kill avatars but Neytiri (Zoe Saldana's character) is shown a sign from their deity, Eywa when she first encounters Jake's avatar. The leader of the Na'vi decides that Jake should be trained in the ways of the Na'vi. Jake learns the ways of the Na'vi and is embraced as one of them, before ultimately having to choose a side in the inevitable conflict between the humans and the Na'vi.
Avatar is set on the fictional planet Pandora so James Cameron had to nothing to base his world on but I believe Cameron pulled it off. He created some of the best visual effects that I have seen ever. He, along with a creative team, invented new flora and fauna and a new race of people with their own language and culture. Pandora looks amazing and every plant and animal species is a spectacle in itself. The landscape of Pandora is original, vibrant and at times breath-taking.
I enjoyed learning about the culture of the Na'vi as it is so different to any culture on Earth. Cameron's exceptional story-telling allows the audience to empathise with the plight of the Na'vi. The metaphor of Avatar is not lost on me - the displacement of species and willful destruction of the natural environment is one of my generation's greatest dangers.
There are a couple of things that I thought were wrong with Avatar. First of all I didn't engage with the scenes showing mundane tasks of the humans, I much preferred watching the Na'vi. Secondly, there were multiple occasions when Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephan Lang) would have died in real life.
Overall though I absolutely loved Avatar and can't wait for the planned sequels.
Interesting review Mackenzie. Do you think when people are watching it they can see how not understanding those different to us is relevant to the world, especially at the moment with Trump etc?
ReplyDeleteYeah it will definitely teach a lot of people to accept different races. It was a very powerful movie.
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