avatar movie review
And I didn’t drink the Kool-Aid and start out all gung-ho about James Cameron’s return to directing with Avatar. [1]
Avatar is unequivocally, completely, 100% the film that has been percolating in James Cameron’s head for the last fourteen years. [2]
It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron’s singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking. [3]
For the opening half hour, it’s all military interiors and computer wizardry, and once Jake - a perfect DNA replacement for his dead twin - is hooked up to his ‘avatar’, a ten-foot tall half-clone created in a lab by Sigourney Weaver’s Dr Grace Augustine, it’s all bright blue vistas and multi-coloured forests. [4]
There’s a paraplegic soldier named Sully (Sam Worthington, ‘Markus’ in Terminator: Salvation) who is somehow implanted in or changed into a simulated alien or ‘avatar’ with the help of another holdover from Aliens, the wonderful Sigourney Weaver. [...] She becomes an alien avatar also, with other aliens played/voiced by Zoe Saldana (Uhura in the Star Trek movie) and Michelle Rodriguez (Ana Lucia on LOST). [5]
Avatar is an entertainment to be not just seen but absorbed on a molecular level; it’s as close to a full-body experience as we’ll get until they invent the holo-suits. [6]
I plan on seeing Avatar again, in digital 3-D, and trust me, when you watch movies for a living it’s very seldom you ever want to see a film twice in theaters. [1]
James Cameron is back with the cutting-edge sci-fi thriller he claims could change the face of cinema. [4]
It extends the possibilities of what movies can do. [6]
And it seems that sending in ‘avatars’ - human-Na’vi clones of volunteers like wounded marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) - won’t be enough to resolve the conflict peacefully. [4]
A film with the scope of James Cameron's Avatar was always going to be a risk both artistically and financially, especially in today's economic climate. [7]
Cameron has never made a movie just to show off visual pyrotechnics: Every bit of technology in “Avatar” serves the greater purpose of a deeply felt love story. [2]
Let me just start of this review by saying that James Cameron has never made a bad film, and after Avatar, I know that the man still has it. [7]
It is not, in all probability, the film that you had in yours when you first heard that the man who directed Aliens and The Terminator was returning to sci-fi. [2]
Sources:
[1] Avatar Movie Review - Review of James Cameron’s Avatar …
[2] Avatar ‘ Movie Reviews - Movienewz.com
[3] Avatar Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
[4] Avatar Movie Review | Sky Movies
[5] Avatar Movie Review - Avatar (the IMAX 3D preview) Review
[6] Avatar - Movie Reviews, Photos & Videos, Layouts & Wallpapers …
[7] Avatar: Avatar Movie Reviews, Avatar Reviews, Avatar Story …