It's worth mentioning that due to James Cameron's visual work on this film this film was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar at the time and on the visuals alone, it is easy to see why. There aren't enough superlatives to describe them in the context of filmmaking in 2009, they are truly fantastic.

However, the plot is absolutely horrible. The screenplay is instantly forgettable, and the plot is so intensely predictable you begin to wonder if spending hundreds of millions of dollars on making this film is necessary at all. What in all honesty is the point when you're guilty of making a film so overblown and overlong on characters that simply do not deserve or garner any real acclaim in contemporary cinema? James Cameron is more guilty than most of making epics that instead of captivate you for the long running time (which many films are capable of doing) you begin to wonder when the credits are going to roll.

Overall, a visual masterpiece let down by virtually everything else.