Film review avatar-Alex Thomson

The review will be on the film by James Cameron and was realised in cinemas in 2009 the film is one of the highest spending films of all time and made its also one of the highest grossing films of all time at $2.8 billion.

The main protagonist named Jake Sully is a ex marine who had to leave the army due to him being shot in the leg and confined to a wheel chair but he has the attitude of all task can be done no matter the circumstances he has the main theme of justices and learning as he must learn to his new environment to compete with the other people in his team, who are all scientist and people who actually trained for years to do what he had been chosen to do in a day. This character is different from most he does start obedient but then goes against the chain of command but he doesn’t for reasons other than love but he does it causes he feels connected to those he’s trying to protect.

On the other side of the spectrum with have the antagonist which starts out as the environment which reinforces a statement done by a main character named Colonel Miles which says “everything living thing behind that fence wants to kill you” this is boosted by the fact that a later scene the wildlife chases jake through the forest trying to kill him but as the film progresses peoples true light shines through were and Colonel Miles makes his actions seem humane by trying to reduce casualties even though he doesn’t care and just wants to kill them this character is a good antagonist as he is doing his job but at the same time he trying to seem like every other solider there at the beginning to end and he’s doing it because he thinks there are mindless savage’s.

The main themes of the film are mainly man is evil and nature is good and that tradition and that nature will always win. This is clear themes as the film progress and the changes in the characters take place and the characters that change live with the help of nature while those who don’t lose this is similar to other pro environment and environment awareness films but instead of shoving a message down our throats this film does that in a more action filled way which makes every man child scream with passion and in the side of them of tradition is that the old ways of beasts over machines and rituals and praying to a god will allow them to get the upper hand.

Is this film perfect, not by a long shot but it is a good film the acting is solid it doesn’t try to fix what isn’t broken which is the environmental message way of pitching it but because of this people struggle to take the film seriously and this made the film seem like a copy and paste of Pocahontas which conveyed them same message in a less costly way using animation over live action and cgi but this is the same cgi which allows for the same emersion and feeling in every shot as a Imax cinema in your living room.

So in short go see avatar because it is a good film (but not avatar the last air bender that show disgraced the anime and butchered a good series and left me and all other fans of the franchise disappointed).