Avatar Review: Ready to be transfrormed into a new AVATAR

“I see you.” That is not only sung by Leona Lewis, romantic and sentimental title song, which is on the credits of James Cameron’s highly anticipated, spectacular sci-fi action-adventure epic Avatar (hearing 2009) to . It is also one of the main characters repeatedly voiced leitmotif that runs through the entire movie. This initial greeting of Na’vi, the original inhabitants of the distant alien planet Pandora, where – although the film is somewhat misleading subtitle in this country the German’s departure for Pandora – almost the entire plot of Cameron’s new film plays, communicates a willingness to be both Compared to understand as well as his view of things and accept them. In the course of the film will be shown that these words are not just for intergalactic understanding (and love) between the human species and Na’vi, but also implicitly refer to the aesthetic program of the film. Its self-declared ambition was finally beginning to deliver the cinema audience a revolutionary new film experience, give us a new perspective cinematographic possibilities, including the use of an advanced motion capture process, 3D and digital cameras designed specifically for the film . “I see you” here means including being able to see the world through eyes of James Cameron. Already 15 years ago by former sci-fi cult film director and Oscar-conceived future Titans, only to be postponed due to technical possibilities not yet fully established only once, four years ago went avatar in great secrecy in the production and now come under tremendous pressure of expectation in the cinemas. After the rather subdued voices, for the first teaser hit the hysteria around the film – strange blue light, lanky alien characters and generic clip-aesthetics – even to the blind desire for a potential masterpiece in the nervous panic over a complete disaster. The last time a celebrated sci-fi genre film director after a long abstinence from the director’s chair once again returned to his tribe genre and was confronted with a similar hype in 1999 when George Lucas with Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace a very mediocre movie in the cinema brought. Avatar, the movie hype to Cameron, has fewer weaknesses than the megahit annoying, but not much more original. And that may well be the biggest disappointment of such an intelligent filmmakers like James Cameron.

It all starts but reflects so promising, intelligent and a mystery: In an abrupt cut, but very dynamic Cameron leads confident start assembling one of its interesting main character, shows us a fascinating world of new technology and immediately introduces the exciting main themes of the film. After the first five minutes, we already know that it will go into Avatar to the intermediate areas between dream and reality, between body and identity, nature and technology and, at moments of birth, death and rebirth. The fact that these issues are complex but then running ‘the not so original, it is somewhat disappointing. In the center of the occasionally from the off-word commentary on notifying Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic Marine, a soldier who has more luck than sense. Died when his twin brother, a scientist in a raid, Jake is ordered to take his indispensable place in the human colonization of the planet Pandora. In 2154, the Earth’s natural resources are in fact utilized as well as private corporations and to try, to uproot alien planet for their own purposes. Jake will actually help the scientist Grace (Sigourney Weaver), while studying the natives of Pandora, as he slips into the body of an avatar, a hybrid of the DNA of humans and Na’vi to contact with suspicious people in the Na ‘ vis incorporated. But his military superior, Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) puts him at the same time as a spy, to learn more about the strategic weaknesses of Na’vis too. Jake plays with, but then he meets the beautiful natives Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), which brought him into their world and introduces the complex nature-loving philosophy of life of their tribe, and Jake thus disparages his real mission more …