Avatar has beautiful landscapes, great battle scenes and a plot line full of Liberal cliches. Not that there is anything necessarily wrong with that, as long as one is aware of where the people who made the movie are coming from politically. In spite of such cliches, the movie is not formulaic in the sense that in this sci-fi story it is humans who are the technologically advanced species who invidae an alien world and it is humans who consider the local inhabitants to be somehow inferoir and unworthy of respect. The concept of the avatar is intriguing. If something like this could be developed in real life, it would have many appllications in many fields including of course, space exploration.
The movie starts off with action right from the beginning and then builds to an exciting conclusion which neatly wraps up all the intrigue and mystery in the plot. Sherlock Holmes seems to have almost mythical powers of deduction and to keep from being bored he challenges himself with strange experiments which though might seem odd, prove to be useful in the end. Dr. Watson is a funny sidekick and the interactions between him and Holmes provide comedic twists to the movie.
The movie starts out slow and builds up to an intriguing ending. I expected more action, but if there is s sequel then they have done a good job of setting up the brackground for it with this movie.
People, go and see this movie, it is great! Not only are the computer graphics awesome, but the plotline is good and the movie is full of action right from the start. I would really like to go see this movie again and it's not often that I think that about a movie.