I absolutely loved the entire look of the movie and the world that was created. Fantastic visuals.
But the heart of any movie is it’s characters and how much one gets involved in what happens to them.
Unfortunately, the plot was basically Star Trek Insurrection recycled with different place and characters.
Plus all of the hype surrounding it left many, including me, quite disapponted.
But I would watch it again. I would just do it with the sound turned off. It’s a great movie for playing in the background at a party or to show off ones new gigantic HDTV flat screen.
But when any movie is all style with no substance, that’s not such a good thing.
Actually what I enjoyed far more than the movie itself was a documentary I saw on TV about how it was made and interviews with James Cameron about how technology had finally advanced enough for him to finally be able to bring his long time vision to the screen.
That doc was a really fascinating look behind the scenes while it was being made.
It’s a real shame that Cameron spent the total of that huge budget on the effects alone and didn’t think to hire a decent screenwriter to come up with characters and a plot that audiences could actually care about.
Had he done that it would have gone down in history as a truly great movie rather than just a remarkable technical achievement. Such a shame.