Alexander Henn

I feel so bad for today's youth, hope they will get better films at some point. Firstly, the acting is horrible. Not even Jonah Hill could do a proper acting performances with these amateurs around him. Secondly, the scenes are so shallow and empty. They were apparently so bad at writing the manuscript that they in a few cases had to skip discussions by simply showing soundless bits of facial expressions instead of actually including them properly in the film. Thirdly, is the point of anti rasist movements and films to separate blacks and whites from each other? I though the opposite was true... Why would anyone make a fuss about a white man being with a black woman? I am so disappointed in the current film culture, and worried about how the youth that is affected by these films will grow up... There are many more things wrong with this film. It is trash unfortunately.

If you are fine with watching through 3 hours of good CGI with nothing else to offer, you may like this. I was annoyed after watching this movie. How can they be allowed to waste all those resources on a plot this one dimensional, boring and illogical? Basically the humans came back and they need to populate Pandora to save the human race (so they say). Still, when Jake Sully runs away, they don't give a damn about anything other than Jake and tried to find him. In summary, they bring a whole army to Pandora to colonize it, but then suddenly all they need to do is find Jake and they are satisfied? He goes of course to a water village. Then it is conveniently revealed that now the humans are not even after minerals, they are after whale brains, and no one is at all interested in minerals anymore. It's all about Jake and whale brains... I also thought it was strange that Jake ran away in the first place. The humans intended to colonize the whole planet (they said so in the beginning but it changed later without telling the audience why it changed), so him running away would not solve anything for him, and he must have known that. The characters are also really shallow. Jake is the only one that really sticks out, but his son's are actually the main characters in the film. I actually don't even remember their names. The pacing is also really bad, they cut the scenes in really strange ways. I could rant about this movie for hours. It is not a good movie, trust me. Don't pay to watch it on cinema, wait until you can stream it. The movie is also quite racist. All humans were of course white, because they are supposed to be evil colonizers? I'm not 100% certain, but I am getting a strong African and Indian vibe from the navi people, at least I think they were inspired from some form of tribal community. Still they act a bit like savages sometimes, especially when they got angry, and it feels a bit wrong to portray different people of humans with this kind of contrast. I am not sure of course about this, but this is how it felt like for me when I saw the movie.