Avatar (2009)

As a first movie review, I decided to review the world's #1 movie: Avatar. Avatar is the #1 grossing movie of all time collecting $2,716,824,000 worldwide and has critics and audience worldwide shocked. Being hyped for years now, James Cameron's vision finally arrives on the big screen. This movie, not only is a great science fiction action movie, has a very deep and powerful message to keep our natural world intact. The general storyline follows a marine named Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, one a moon called Pandora who is enlisted in the Avatar Program in which humans would enter the consiousness of a human being into a hybrid body called avatars which are mixed with human DNA with the DNA of the natives of Pandora called the N'avi. And Jake's task from the marine colonel, played by Stephen Lang, is to gain the N'avi's trust and order them to relocate so that the humans can continue mining a stone called unobtanium. However, instead of helping the marines, Jake soon becomes attache to the culture and people of the N'avi and falls in love with the N'avi princess Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana. However all goes terribly wrong when the humans order a preemptive strike on the N'avi as Jake leads the N'avi to a rebellion against the human race. That is a general overview of the plot. Many critics and viewers that criticized that the movie is so similar to the storyline of Pocahontas and Dancing With The Wolves, I found that this movie is very original and is, in my opinion, a cinematic masterpiece. I have not seen a movie as good as this one during the time period of 2000 to today. James Cameron created a fiction world of Pandora that soon drags you into it and, like Jake Sully, you immediately fall in love with their culture. And when the humans come to destroy the N'avi, you feel so heartbroken and guilty for what they have done, then you look at yourself and wonder, is what I'm doing right? The plot was great but the special effects of this movie is what gave it is spectacle. The visual effects are too good too be true. During the middle of the movie, I actually thought it was real then reminded myself that it was just a movie. They are spectacular. The CGI of the actors playing the N'avi and the background environment of Pandora are just downright amazing. Everything about this movie is incredible: the story, the actors, the script, the effects and (surprisingly) the music. I give this movie a 90 out of 100.