Avatar (2009)

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	Year of first release: 2009
	Director: James Cameron (The Terminator 1&2, Titanic)
	Actors: Sam Worthington (Rogue, Terminator Salvation), Zoe Saldana (Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness), Sigourney Weaver (Alien 1-4, Ghostbusters)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 01.02.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Mining operations on the moon Pandora are generating conflicts with the indigenous population. A program called Avatar has created human-aliens hybrids, remotely controlled by humans. One of them, paraplegic former marine (Worthington), will change the game.
Review:  It is not easy to review the most succesful movie of all times, it has been a draft on this blog since February! I went to see it twice in the cinema to enjoy the immersive 3D. I was impressed by the movie, but maybe not to the point to understand its massive worldwide success. Maybe it is the SF movie people have been waiting for a long time (since Matrix?) and maybe the best space opera since Star Wars! James Cameron has a huge talent for telling such stories, and as a former engineer he is able to involve the viewer in a world realistic in all aspects. I wrote in my review of the Adventure of  Tintin that I was impressed by the photorealistic images, but actually the images of Avatar were already striking five years before! The topic of the movie is very actual: a global and greedy company looking for precious ressources to satisfy an overpopulated planet Earth. The movie was criticized for its simplistic story (basically cowboys and indians in space) but James Cameron tells this story with perfect direction and timing, making it an instant classic. Sometimes it seems like movie don't need to be extremely original to please the public, but just to be told with sincerity. I thought the same about the French comedy Bienvenue chez les Chti's. It may not have deserved to be the most successful French movie of all times, but this simple comedy well told was just what the public needed at that time. I made another comparison of Avatar with the movie Total Recall (1990) in this review. Avatar is clearly a masterpiece of Science Fiction. James Cameron has planned to take eight years to deliver the two sequels.
Rating: 9 /10