My Movie Review: Avatar

My Movie Review: Avatar
By Wade Durham

James Cameron is back in action, with something new, something daring, something worth around $250 million, something.....beautiful. Avatar is a pretty simple sci-fi story about humans and there attempt to take over another species civilzation, in this case its for money purposes. Cameron takes his time setting up his story making sure you get whats going on, then from that point he follows the sam outline as Titanic(5/5). Which is love/romance first half, disaster second half. Which i'm not complaining the mans a genius really. But I know what you all really want to hear me talk about... the effects. Visually Avatar is well.....a masterpiece. The 3D is used in innovative ways thats enough to really 'wow' audiences.But really its not just the 3-D the majority of the time spent watching this fable I found myself wondering how the hell Cameron did all this, even with the huge budget. James Cameron has created the Star Wars (5/5) of our time. The film has perfect timing within the wrap up of the decade, giving us the realization that this was one of the best decades for films in awhile. Where Avatar lacks unfortunately is the story, however I don't think it was Camerons goal to give you something new story-wise. But introduce us to this new technology in cinema. So story-wise theres nothing new but a sci-fi action film, but it is truly brought to life.

4.5/5 FANTASTIC REVIEW