James Cameron
Avatar

One of the ugliest and most expensive films in the history of Cinema, this is, in summary, a gift that the verbose Cameron lacks. No one, or few European critics, blindly loyal to Hollywood - USA, who, without being anti-American, deign to definitively criticize these computer graphics puppets as non-cinema, or rather as the death of cinema itself.

An enormous blob of pomp, special effects, hybridizations, and virtual realities that make you overindulge. Then, noblesse oblige, quotes or imitations: there's the opening eye taken from "Lost", Weaver borrowed from Alien, the gigantic half-human robot that's "Yattaman", or even "Goldrake", Michelle Rodriguez aka Ana Lucia and that's "Lost Another Time". A bunch of big lizards and that's "Jurassic Park" or "Godzilla". There's Giovanni Ribisi and that's "Phoebe Buffet". Then helicopters and airplanes move on the right side of the screen and that's "Apocalypse Now" and also "Apocalypse Now Redux". The hero infiltrates from within and that's Trojan Horse-"Troy". There are two who make love amidst fireflies and it's "Lady Oscar". The population of blue lizard-like natives starts praying while bowing to a tree -!- and that's "The Lion King". The lizards start making a strange dance and that's "All Blacks"; the lizards are all blue and have an elder chief and that's Barbapapa or the Smurfs. The Hero is despised but then welcomed as a God and that's Jesus Christ. The Hero encourages the lizards to revolt with great success and that's "Braveheart".

Ladies and gentlemen, is 15 years justifiable for this film supposedly in 3D? Either Cameron is very slow or he had financial problems delivering the annual American blockbuster. Enough, someone needs to say enough to these sci-fi holiday blockbusters. Since after the war, the world has been tormented by them. Generations of children have been bewildered by "Star Wars" and various frivolities. The special effects, it is true, are very well crafted and with millions of details, but nothing special from a qualitative point of view.

But if a video game programmer today manages to provide a better quality product in less time, maybe it's time to hire video game programmers as directors.