evilbeefchan

There's no denying it's a visually stunning film. There can be no gripes about the technical achievements of both the jaw-dropping environments and believably lifelike characters (which successfully avoided that dreaded "uncanny valley").With that said, I lost interest in the story partway through the movie.

What bothered me was that you knew how a scene was going to end because you've seen it before. Example: The main character tries to do something the natives do, fails, and they ridicule him. More of the same, then a montage, and now he's super skilled. It's not predictable because it references a specific movie or scene, but that it follows the same storytelling that's been expressed in other films/stories. The freaky part is that you know how long it's going to take for that scene to end, so you're staring at the background until it's time. The whole movie was like this for me. A scene would start, I would zone out, and the scene ends in predictable fashion. There's nothing complex about the plot to keep you interested and it's a shame. This pretty much could have been James Cameron's version of "Planet Earth," complete with Sigourney Weaver.