In this age of pulp it's hardly surprising this film gets such a high rating from most people. Compared to most of the other movies that come out of Hollywood it's fairly good... but compared to good movies it isn't.

The first thing that bothered me was the storyline, or the lack thereof. Cliché is mounted on cliché, about 20 minutes into the movie the entire stretch of the story is already clear and it's just a wait for the ending. Predictable storytelling gets no kudos from me.

That wait would not have been so bad if it wasn't for the second thing that annoyed me: The CGI. Almost the entire movie is comprised of CGI, and it just doesn't look good.

On to the third reason I didn't like this movie: Unobtanium... a precious mineral that is hard to obtain... I don't know why no one of the film crew figured that that's a pretty damned bad name for a major plot device. It doesn't stand alone though, just about every non-earth name in the movie could have been pulled straight out of any cliché fantasy book.

The acting was fine, although a bit upstaged by the above mentioned annoyances. The movie might have been saved somewhat if the emotions had been written a little deeper.

The action was pretty good, but that's not that hard to do... especially when it's all CGI. All in all I'd say this movie is great for kids and people with a taste for underdeveloped and unoriginal story. To anyone who was hoping the 'best movie of 2009' would actually be good I'd say this is quite the disappointment.

Where Lord of the Rings captures your own imagination, Avatar presses Cameron's imagination into your eyes with extreme force.