Before I even tell you more about the movie, let me put this on record, Avatar has taken story telling to a whole different level. It has now changed the way we will watch movies in the years to come. James Cameron who gave us movies like Titanic and Terminator had thought of this concept and wrote this story almost 15 years back and he is said to have waited till 2007 for the technology to catch up for his dream project. I am glad he did not leave this idea halfway thru, because we would have been deprived of one of the greatest movie of all time. Avatar also is the costliest movie ever made till date. As per a news report recently, Avatar already made over 1 billion dollars within the first month of its release.
The story is set in the future years when earth's existence depends on a source of energy available in another planet called Pandora. The only problem is that Pandora is inhabited by indigenous creatures called Navis who speak their own language and are defending their motherland with Bows and arrows against the evil humans who have bombs, robots and mining equipment. Pandora's air is not breathable by humans and they are outnumbered and not well equipped to fight the Navis in their homeland. This leads to scientists creating avatars of humans like Navis. The procedure is simple, the avatar would take over while the humans stay asleep in an incubator. Jake Sully is the main character of this movie who is a marine who has been injured and lost his legs, he his given a chance to go to pandora as his brother dies and the folks on Pandora do not want the Avatar created for his dead brother to go a waste. Upon reaching Pandora, Jake Sully starts learning about the place and gets used to living his life through his avatar. Till this moment Pandora and the movie looks like any other usual Sci-fi movie, but moments after Jake Sully and his mates are taken to Pandora's forests to get used to the terrain.. the ride begins.. initially Jake makes a wrong move even after repeated warnings by the resident scientists and lands up being changes by a panther/dragon mix creature which is so cool. After escaping such encounters, Jakes avatar is separated from the group and they have to leave him in the jungle and go back to the base. Jakes avatar who is chased by wild creatures is saved by Neytiri a Navi who lets him live because the local god shows her a sign that Jake is a free spirit. Jake follows Neytiri and one thing leads to another and over a period of time Jake starts feeling for the Navis and feels that what the humans are doing and what he is being sent into the forest. I do not want to divulge too much of the story as I want you guys to watch the movie without fail. The movie ends with an epic battle between the humans and the Navis led by Jake Sully and Neytiri.
Now to Pandora: James Cameron has set up this planet with his imagination and creativity, this is proof that the human mind can imagine and create anything. Right from the start, Pandora is a large planet, with great dense forests, crazy plans, large trees, large creatures, dragons, light insects, small dragons, large panthers, dogs & Master dragons to floating mountains, large oceans, long rivers, very tall mountains and the list goes on. Watch it and you would be spellbound by the sheer brilliance and beauty of this make belief planet !!
The cast of Avatar is also great. Jake Sully played by Sam Worthington, Neytiri played by Zoe' Saldana, Trudy played by Michelle Rodriguez & Col Miles played by Steven Lang stand out in each scene.
I would recommend that you watch the movie only on 3D IMAX to experience this movie. If you cannot get to an IMAX 3D then at least try to watch it in 3D. However you watch it, its going to be a great movie watching experience.
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