I did not show much interest on this movie as I first saw the dubbed trailer on a Tamil channel expecting it to a be a below average movie promoted by the channel’s excellent marketing team. I really didn’t know till yesterday that it is a James Cameron movie. In fact I wanted to watch this movie just because of Cameron. With 3D tickets not available we chose to watch it 2D at Innovative Multiplex.
I should say I really did not have much expectations expect for Cameron. I already brushed up a bit of the storyline via Wikipedia. The story is simple -“Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.”
The Story does not do much to the movie. Its purely screenplay and the super cool visual effects (the graphics are designed with finite details) that drives the 3 hour long movie. Wow! One would really wonder the power of imagination and cannot resist the beautiful Pandora’s rainforests (They look so real I wish I was there!)
But the movie reminds of some earlier movies like Matrix while transporting between Human Mind & Avatar and Kamal Hassan when the heroine cries for her dead father. One cannot expect logic or scientific reasoning in movies like this but some instances does prick your common sense.
Don’t expect a ‘Titanic’ but you can be sure assured of a three hour good time pass.
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