My wife dragged me to this movie, and it was exactly what I expected.

First of all, the visual effects are spectacular. This movie should win awards for visual effects, no question. However, given the budget and amount of time spent on this movie, this is what I would have expected. A new high-water mark for CGI special effects.

The story is pretty stale as others have said; it's not a bad idea but it's been done to death.

My real problem with this movie is the characters. They're all so cardboard and lifeless. Let's see:











I would contrast this with either of the first two Alien movies, which had many of these stereotypes but did them so much better. You laughed with them and cared about them, unlike this movie.

While the visual effects were awesome, the actual visual design is totally weak. It looks like it was all designed by a 12 year old. Why the hell does the forest glow in the dark? To wow the audience, and that's it. As for the Navi, they're blue native Americans. They didn't even try.

This movie is not revolutionary. Earlier on I thought that the ENTIRE movie was CGI, and they were working on hyper-realistic humans. THAT would have been something. This, not so much.