Avatar is a highly disappointing film that fails to live up to its hype. Despite its "impressive special effects", the film is lacking in terms of plot and character development. The CGI creatures and settings are impressive, but they still do not look photo-realistic and the motion capture performances are not fully convincing. The entire three hour saga appears more like an endless intro to a computer game rather than a film. Extremely unrealistic in every respect. I never thought I would get to this point where I would write a negative review for a film from my favorite genre, but here I am, leaving a negative rating for a film for the first time in 23 years.