Avatar Movie Review

When was the last time when people inside the theatre clapped after the movie was over. I have never experienced this before and that too in a US theatre, I have seen a lion’s share of movies in theater and I can strongly make this statement, the best visual experience I have seen in my life. As of Dec 24, 2009 Avatar has raked in 329.3 million USD worldwide collections and is at the 184th position of all time grosses. Only 4 movies have ever crossed the 1 Billion USD mark and I won’t be surprised if Avatar makes it as the 5th movie ever to cross the 1 Billion USD mark in worldwide collection. Beating Titanic’s record of 1.8 Billion USD may be a tough ask for Avatar but it will at least move to the second biggest grosser of all time if not first.

Making the movie in 3D was a very smart move from James Cameroon as it enhanced the visuals to an unimaginable level. The story has nothing great to write about; Pandora is a planet with a wealth of resources and has a rich deposit of Unobtainium, a small piece of it costs 20 million dollars. The local natives called the Navi inhabit Pandora and their village is sitting on top of the richest reserve of Unobtainium. The Navi’s can do literally everything, they are 10 foot tall, great hunters, have fancy beasts and dinosaur like birds to ride and fly through the sky and sleep on big beaver like nests. The hero is sent on a mission to infiltrate the Navi’s and relocate them so that the Unobtainium reserves can be unearthed. Since humans cannot survive in Pandora, they are mutated to become Navi’s similar to matrix style. The hero gets into Pandora and learns the way of the Navi’s only to have a change of heart and support the Navi’s and fight. The climax scene is a sight to behold.

The movie takes you through a series of breathtaking visuals, an entire planet has been created for our visual pleasure, James Cameron plays god here to his full innovative extent. Watch the movie purely for its visual contents; it will blow your mind away. For all future animation and CG experts, this movie would be the bible. Watch the movie in 3D, save your 3D glasses as souvenirs and show them to your grandkids and proudly say to them that these were the glasses though which you saw Avatar. As far as for James Cameron, let’s start calling him James Cameron The Great.