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Fresh:44
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Average Rating:7.8/10
Australian Rating: TBC
Genre: Action/Adventure
Australian Theatrical Release:
Dec 17, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver
Director: James Cameron
Though certainly not the pioneering experience it's been touted as, Avatar is an exciting, visually arresting, and occasionally powerful slab of Hollywood filmmaking driven by one of the industry's most committed, passionate, stand-alone creative forces.
Top CriticLove and acceptance are at the heart of this megabuck megapic; while our hearts are opened by the Emotion Key, our eyes are dazzled by the visual spectacle, enhanced by remarkable 3D. An event of a film, a spectacle that allows us to live the fantasy.
Top CriticAvatar is a richly symbolic, captivating and immense film which laces together some of the great mythical stories of mankind into a contempo action adventure fusing its sci fi genes with spiritual and ecological themes. And it pivots on romance
Top CriticA technical groundbreaker, if not a cinematic one, James Cameron's long-awaited return delivers on its promise to be a fully immersive, rousing spectacle.
Top CriticAs superbly rendered as his 3D world is, Cameron has populated it with characters who are strictly 2D. And sometimes not even that.
Top CriticIf this is the future of filmmaking, then bring it on, I say.
Top CriticImperfect as it is, Avatar is still essential viewing for anyone who cares about the future of the movies.
A thematically rich and imaginative sci-fi masterpiece that gives us a cosmology totally in sync with contemporary spirituality movements -- reverence for the Earth as a living being and Oneness consciousness celebrating the interconnectedness of all.
It's an impossible but completely plausible and seductive world that invites your total immersion. Don't resist it; sink in and fly with it. All Cameron asks is that you open your eyes.
It's a magnificent technical achievement, a movie of such vast scale and ambition that you have to watch it on the big screen.
There are visionary filmmakers - and then there's James Cameron, who pushes the envelope of what is possible on the screen every time he makes a film. He doesn't do it nearly often enough.
There is much in Avatar that is broadly drawn, clichéd even - but it is also these very things which might just earn it the status of a classic.
An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanic's box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors.
This is spectacle with soul, a film as unafraid to reference My Lei or the Trail of Tears as it is Edgar Rice Burroughs or Hayao Miyazaki
If I wanted to hear endless nonsense spewed from something good-looking, I'd watch The Tyra Banks Show.
Not since Dorothy's Kansas farmhouse landed in Oz - 70 years ago - and the screen transformed from black-and-white to color - has there been such a magical, revelatory moment as the emergence of the planet Pandora in IMAX 3-D.
James Cameron's long-awaited sci-fi epic is every bit as wondrous and imaginative as promised. Prepare to be amazed.
Avatar is part National Geographic TV special, part Guns 'n' Ammo bumper edition . . .
An amazing visual achievement, slightly hampered by routine narrative and cardboard characterizatons--Tim Grierson.
"Avatar" may well be a perfect film to desensitize young audiences before they get the call-up.
December 14, 2009:
Awards Tour 2009: Avatar Best Picture at NYFCO!
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