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Avatar

2009

James Cameron

Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang ...

7.2

167,346

Sci-Fi. Adventure. War. Action. Fantasy. Romance Year 2154. On a distant moon Pandora, a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Chris Hewitt Empire	"A flawed but fantastic tour de force (...) However, if you can wrap a pair of 3D glasses round your peepers, this becomes a transcendent, full-on five-star experience that's the closest we'll ever come to setting foot on a strange new world. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely. 'Avatar' is not simply a sensational entertainment, although it is that. It's a technical breakthrough. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"The film vibrates with the excitement of discovery and awe. Not just for the sight of six-legged rhinos and butterfly-hued dragons, but for the thousands of hours of work that unite here in a creative epiphany (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"The King of the World sets his sights on creating another world entirely in 'Avatar,' and it's very much a place worth visiting. (...) delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back-to-nature theme"
		Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Avatar is an entertainment to be not just seen but absorbed on a molecular level; it's as close to a full-body experience as we'll get until they invent the holo-suits"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"As visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it"
		Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald	"The genre elements are all there: What critically wounds Avatar is Cameron's inability to write better characters"
		Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"Cameron's singular vision has upped the ante for filmed entertainment, and given us a travelogue unlike any other. I wouldn't want to live on Pandora, mainly because of the bad air, but I'm glad to have paid it a visit"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Whatever way you choose to look at it, Avatar's shock and awe demand to be seen. You've never experienced anything like it"
		Wendy Ide The Times	"Immense in every way (...) Avatar is an overwhelming, immersive spectacle. The state-of-the-art 3D technology draws us in, but it is the vivid weirdness of Cameron’s luridly imagined tropical otherworld that keeps us fascinated."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"What the industry needs (the kind of wowser you'll pay to see on a big screen). (...) thunderously exciting (...) It extends the possibilities of what movies can do. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"[Cameron] brings science-fiction movies into the 21st century with the jaw-dropping wonder that is 'Avatar.' (...) Every bit of technology in "Avatar" serves the greater purpose of a deeply felt love story"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Created to conquer hearts, minds, history books and box-office records, the movie — one of the most expensive in history, the jungle drums thump — is glorious and goofy and blissfully deranged. (...) [Cameron] hasn’t changed cinema, but with blue people and pink blooms he has confirmed its wonder. "

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