Avatar Review

Year 2054. Jake Sully ( Sam Worthington ) is an ex-marine who lives in a wheelchair, although his determination and courage remain intact. That is why he is appointed to travel to Pandora , a planet from which humanity is exploiting its natural resources, specifically a mineral that will end the Earth's energy crisis and, well, the company responsible for the extraction will be rich.

The planet in question has a very toxic atmosphere for earthlings, which is why the Avatar program has been created , with which humans join their consciousness to a biological body, controlled remotely and that can survive such lethal air. These bodies have been created from a mixture of human DNA and DNA from Pandora's indigenous people, the Na'vi .

Thanks to his new avatar, Jake can walk again when he is controlling him. His mission will be to infiltrate a Na'vi tribe and he will do it through the beautiful Neytiri ( Zoe Saldana ). Well beautiful, the Na'vi, are a species that is not so far from humans, but they are somewhat larger, stronger and bluer. With somewhat marked attributes.

As time goes on, he will be accepted into the tribe and form relationships with the natives, while the humans await reports of his mission and prepare to go into battle with the Na'vis, as he is the only thing standing between them and the Na'vis. the coveted mineral.

The film was undoubtedly an absolute blockbuster , breaking all box office records. Revolutionary 3D and visual effects techniques were used . And the two protagonists are accompanied by other names such as Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang or Michelle Rodriguez, among others.

Avatar movie review

Michelle Rodriguez in AvatarLet him go ahead that on a technical level, the special effects, visually speaking, Avatar is great . The first and surely the only film that uses 3D to its advantage, to enrich the film visually and not, as happens with the rest of the films that incorporate this technique, which have to pose situations in the script to give 3D an outlet...

Another issue is that I like more or less 3D. In fact, I went to see Avatar at the cinema when they re-released it, it had never caught my attention, but some friends were very upset that it would be the last chance to see it in the cinema, to take advantage of how immersive 3D is in big screen . And I only have to say two things about it: 1. 3D is not as immersive as they want to sell us and 2. 3D does not match the subtitles, necessary in this film to understand the Na'vi.

Going back to the film, without a doubt the effects that were achieved digitally, the landscapes, the camera movements and how they captured the facial expressions of the actors with those special costumes and others... it's all technical wonder, without a doubt. But this is the end of the goodness of this movie and if you are a staunch Avatar fan, you better stop reading now, because you are not going to like what comes next…

Both the plot of the film and the script are very simple, the US "invading a country" to exploit its natural resources and make a fortune... but this time they do it with blue characters. At times the story seemed like a story of Disney princesses, what's more, you change the name of Neytiri for Pocahontas and they nail it. Then a bit of Alien, Terminator, Matrix and any war movie and there you have it. Avatar is a film rehash.

The script falls into all the blockbuster clichés . Also, I don't usually pay attention to these things, I found some flaws in the universe of the film itself. And I don't want to get into the idea that the Na'vi braid is used to connect with animals and to mate… it's weird.

The first part, with a lot of science fiction, with the visual effects, those colors and how they are presented to the indigenous people, can be entertaining, but the second part is just a war movie... nothing more, nothing less.

The truth is that I could feel a certain attachment to what is intended to be transmitted from nature, how the natives of Pandora feel a connection with every living being , that mysticism with the "pachamama". I also understand that social criticism , which I have commented on the USA before, but it could perfectly well be the Spanish, annihilating the indigenous people of Latin America. It made me laugh how the military mocked the beliefs of the Na'vi when, surely, they believe in a fictional God .

From what I just said, I don't understand how the film had such a box office boom . The spectators, some repeaters in the rooms, were they just fooled by so much color and special effect? Or is it that they did not understand what the movie was about? And I say this, because normally the films that criticize the miseries of society and that are so intimately related to nature, do not usually have this acceptance, far from it.

In any case, James Cameron hit it again, and of course, he wants to continue exploiting this blue universe. That is why they have already been announced, the second, third, fourth and remove part... which in addition, the director himself assures that they will be more familiar... uff, I hope it's not up to me to have to comment on them.