Avatar

Intro

On December 31, 2009, I watched the hit movie Avatar. This is a review of the movie.




Story

Crippled ex-marine Jake Sully is taken to Pandora for a special mission to collect $20,000,000 rocks called unobtanium to be sold on Earth. However, there is a problem. Indigenous people known as the Na’Vi have their village right over the largest deposit of unobtanium on Pandora. Jake is paired with a scientist named Norm. Because of this, a professor named Grace created the Avatars. She mixed human and Na’Vi DNA to create them. Some humans would remotely control the Avatars, which looked like the Na’Vi. The Avatars were supposed to gain the trust of the Na’Vi and get them to move. However, Jake gets lost in the Pandoran jungle on his first mission. A Na’Vi woman named Eteeri saves Jake’s life when he is attacked by a pack of wild dogs/hyenas/wolf things. She is about to kill him when a group of seeds from the Na’Vi’s sacred tree cluster around him. Eteeri then takes Jake to the Hometree village of the Omethicaya Na’Vi. Jake learns from the Na’Vi, but he is telling everything he learns to his boss. At one point, after learning about the Na’Vi and becoming one of them, Jake falls in love with Eteeri. However, on the next day, bulldozers come to destroy Hometree. However, when Jake disables and destroys the outer steering cameras in a fit of rage, a group of bombers, led by the insane, trigger-happy head of security, goes to destroy Hometree with missiles. Hometree is destroyed and Jake is removed from the tribe when the Omethicaya learn that he knew the gun ships were coming. Then the head of security takes Grace, Jake, and Norm to the main section of the base and imprisons them. However, one of their friends, a gunship pilot, saves them. But during their escape by gunship, the head of security shoots Grace and gives her serious injuries. They leave with the link center used to control the Avatars. An ensuing war (battle would not be able to describe it fully) causes many things to happen, and I won’t spoil the surprises, so see the rest of the movie yourself.


Pros

1.Good special effects. It didn’t look like some CGI image. It looked like an actual 10-foot tall person.

2.Good, understandable storyline.

3.It just looks good.


Cons

1.Lots of swearing.


Rating:

10 out of 10