Avatar
2009, Fantasy/Adventure, 2h 35m
319 Reviews 250,000+ RatingsWhat to know
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. Read critic reviews
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Jake Sully
Neytiri
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Grace Augustine
Col. Miles Quaritch
Trudy Chacone
Parker Selfridge
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Critic Reviews for Avatar
All Critics (319) | Top Critics (82) | Fresh (260) | Rotten (59)
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Rewatching it with fresh eyes 10 years later, the movie's pluses and minuses both rise into much starker relief. The verdict: It's...fine.
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In my opinion, Avatar has been hyped beyond the point of forgiveness.
January 16, 2018 | Full Review… -
Learning your visuals from Jack Kirby is one thing, but too often it sounds like Cameron learned to write dialogue from the guy too.
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Overall, Avatar was really about the jaw-dropping visual effects--that's the great thing about it.
September 12, 2017 | Rating: B | Full Review… -
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November 18, 2011 | Rating: 2/5
Audience Reviews for Avatar
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Nov 21, 2017I never liked this movie when it came out, I liked it even less when I watched part of it again on one of those rerun movie channels recently. I'll get the obvious praise out of the way, the visuals were ground breaking and well done. Not a lot of movies have used 3D in the same masterful way that James Cameron managed in Avatar. Past being a visual event, I think this movie does not work. I am aware I am a detractor from the popular opinion, although I am maybe not anymore. This movie was lauded by many people as something akin to Alien or Star Wars, some grand entry into the sci-fi genre. I love the aforementioned films. I generally love science fiction and fantasy. This film did not work for me in the slightest. I think it is also sort of interesting that there are no major Avatar spin offs nearly a decade later, no grand comicon fan fare. Maybe it was not so grand. In the end you'll form your own opinions, this is my why. It does not work for me because it's a warmed over Jesus myth layered over a first nations story. It is barely competent at that. I can't define the Na'Vi except by reference to cliches. They're basically granola hippies meet the old west natives, and not in a flattering way. I understand little about the humans of the future, outside of mega corps and one dimensional army guys. I had to google the name of the planet this movie took place on. My first thought was Pangea, close. I am not sure I ever understood the point of the birds. I am not sure why an outsider in a cyborg suit is the only person who can tame the off color bird. Why does any of this matter? It matters in science fiction. People invented a Klingon language. I wonder what Greedo's people were like, I wonder why there are Vulcans and Romulans. They are all sort of tropes, and rip off certain real life things. Romulans gives it away in the name. To be clear, I do not care enough to learn these things I rattled off, but it's that wonder. The spectacle of good science fiction, for me, is that curiosity. The world, the people, that stand beyond themselves. You learn something about yourself or the real world by reference to that wonder. I couldn't care less about the blue aliens and their Jesus, and I think that is why this film never worked for me. I think all science fiction is a strange project of building a little bit on what we know to create what could be, Avatar never makes it off the ground for me.Shane S Super Reviewer
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Nov 13, 2016I can say only that I don't like much the movie and his ending and that is only my opinion. Otherwise it's really good made. And there's some logical things that can be shown for reasoning of the story and the last actions or middle a tions in the movie.Valeri I Super Reviewer
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Jun 20, 2016If you saw this film in IMAX 3D, then you got the full effect of the film which is why it is the highest grossing film of all time (not adjusted for inflation). It was the first to film entirely with 3D cameras and got the whole modern "3D fad" going. If you simply saw the movie itself, it comes off as a decent film chalk full of CGI. The action sequences were well done. Zoe Saldana was the stand out of the film as Neytiri, one of the indigenous Na'vi. The story itself, however, has been done before. This film is essentially Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai just in space/on another planet.Patrick W Super Reviewer
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May 17, 2016This is the movie that would end changing the film industry forever. After this movie was released in the cinema, it became incredibly popular to give movies 3D releases, however, they still don't know how to make the 3D look as good as it did in this movie. This is a visual masterpiece and you can thank James Cameron for his persistance and his vision that eventually enabled this masterpiece to be shown on the big screen. The movie has some very good performances, but the best performance is given by Stephen Lang who plays the main antagonist in the movie. He gives so much of himself in this performance and really nails the motivation and the villainous nature that this character needs. The story is, however, a very classic and it's something that we have seen 100 times before. The movie is a visual masterpiece, but the story really lacks something new and my only prayer for the next couple of movies is that Cameron comes up with better and original stories.Lasse G Super Reviewer
Avatar Quotes
| Grace: | They're just pissing on us without even giving us the courtesy of calling it rain |
| Grace: | They're just pissing on us without even giving us the courtesy of calling it rain. |
| Jake Sully: | It's over Quaritch! |
| Col. Miles Quaritch: | Nothing's over while I'm breathing! |
| Jake Sully: | I kinda hoped you'd say that. |
| Col. Miles Quaritch: | Everyone on this base, every one of you, is fighting for survival, and that's a fact. There's an aboriginal horde out there massing for an attack. These orbital images tell me that the hostile numbers have gone from a few hundred to well over two thousand in one day. And more are pourin' in. In a week's time, there could be 20,000 of 'em. At that point they will overrun our perimeter. That's not gonna happen. Our only security lies in preemptive attack. We will fight terror with terror. The hostiles believe that this mountain territory is protected by their... deity. And when we destroy it, we will blast a crater in their racial memory so deep, that they won't come within 1,000 klicks of this place ever again. And that too, is a fact. |
| Jake Sully: | All I ever wanted was a single thing worth fighting for. |
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