Hi Guyzzz I saw this movie couple of days back and I liked the movie somewhat..the movie stars Gerrard Butler and Jamie Fox(I wudve liked Denzel Washington to play that role) and its got the same storyline of A WEDNESDAY (Now didnt we people compare AVATAR and VIETNAM COLONY ??) but with a lil more violence and twists..This is the 2nd Gerrared Butler movie I am watching after the magnificent "300" (Leonidas)...actually this wudve been the 3rd movie had I watched the recent movie "GAMER"(I started watching and soon stopped coz it was like watching someone else playing a PS3 game) which I have in my collection..
The movie starts with 2 goons murdering Clyde's (Butler's screen name) wife and daughter while he was lying half unconscious...the culprits were caught by the cops and they were produced before the court and Nick (Jamie Fox) was chosen as Clyde's lawyer...Nick is a highly successful attorney with a 96% conviction rate and he is keen to maintain that statistics so when one of the goons agreed to testify against the other in exchange of lesser punishment Nick accepts that offer without getting approval from Clyde and Clyde was angered by this act and he asks Nick why cant they try to get both capital punishment without making a deal with the criminal since they know that they are culprits and Nick says that in a court room what matters is not TRUTH but what can be PROVEN…this incident made Clyde lose faith in the entire system….
The next scene happens after 10 years and now Nick is a succesful senior attorney with a wife and kid…and we are invited to watch the execution of one of the persons (the other got away with a prison sentence) convicted for murdering Clyde's family…the execution was supposed to be quick and painless (lethal injection) but when the chemical went thru the veins the person starts screaming and twitching and his veins started to bulge and eyes almost popped out and everybody was stunned/terrified and it took couple of minutes (instead of the few seconds it normally takes) for the convict to die and he died a painful death….this incident was investigated and they found a paper with words "YOU CANNOT FIGHT FATE" and they thinks that this was done by the crook who testified againt this fellow (coz that was a line he often quoted) but Jamie Fox realises that this was done by someone who has got connections and brains and he decided that it must be Clyde….meanwhile a SWAT team was sent to capture Darby (The TESTIFIER) but Darby was tipped by an anonymous call and the voice over the fone tells Darby how to evade the pursuing cops and Darby unknowing walsk into the trap set by Clyde for him….Clyde poisons him with an exotic venom (which paralyses ur body but does not numb your senses..thats even though u cant move a limb you will feel pain when pricked or poked) and ties him to a cot and slowly chops of his limbs one and kills him eventually by and captures that in a camera(He will be wearing a mask all thru out this scene) and sends it to Nick and Nick confirms that its none other than Clyde who is behind all this and they arrests him and puts him behind bars but even sitting inside his cell he manages to eliminate his targets one by one and then Nick realises that Clyde is no small fish and later he comes to know from a secret agent that Clyde used to work for the Government and he was their best THINK TANK/STRATEGIST who cud think few steps ahead of the enemy and he also warns NICK "If Clyde wants you DEAD then you will be DEAD"….the movie is about the CAT and MOUSE game Clyde plays with Nick and the authorities…
I said its theme is similar to A WEDNESDAY coz in A WEDNESDAY our hero is a common man who is angered by the acts of terrorists and becomes a ONE MAN ARMY and in this movie hero is a person who is felt cheated by the judicial system and wages a war against the system(HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A MAN WRONGED)….in hindi movie we had Anupam Kher as an equally sharp law enforcement agent whereas in English movie we have a sharp legal professional…it’s a battle of wits between both that’s the crux of the story (otherwise the scenes and situations are entirely different)…just the basic thread is similar…..
My opinion
1) I felt it’s an entertaining movie…
2) Some scenes were a bit unbelievable…but anyway if everything is too believable then wheres the fun ??
3) I wouldve liked a different climax….
4) Denzel Washington wudve been a better choice but if he was cast then Gerard wudnt be able to match his performance…it wudvebeen an uneven match…
5) The plot cudve been a lil more tidy…
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
KANTHASAMY - MY REVIEW
Hi Guyzzz its been long since I wrote a review about a movie...so here comes a new one...this time its Vikram's megabudget movie KANDHASAMY....the movie has been in the news from the day it was announced and people were expecting a lot from this movie....first it started with the E-Invitation cards which contained the trailer of the movie and supposed to have costed Rs.15000/ per piece (Producere mottayadikkarathukku evalavu vazhi!!!)then we heard about the cutting edge technology (grafix) used for the movie and then the pics of Vikram in a female getup etc...the movie was in the making for almost 2 and a half years and the release got postponed numerous times (now I wish the movie release was postponed till eternity!!) due to various reasons (unfortunate demise of Raghuvaran who was cast in the role of CBI-JOINT Director-later played by Telugu veteran Superstar Krishna)(Vikram not happy with certain scenes and wanting to reshoot - LOL we are not happy with any of the scenes!!) etc.....
The movie had it all...a producer who gave him an almost unlimited budget (Paavam manushan!!!)...a mass hero like Vikram...eyecandy Shreya...ilaya thilakam Prabhu...a seasoned villain like Asish Vidyarthi etc etc but the movie lacked one thing A GOOD STORY to accommodate all the above....the story (can i call it that ??) has been told a 100 tyms by 100 directors and the most prominent among them is SHANKAR...I dont know if Susi Ganesan had seen SHIVAJI...coz if he has I dont think he wudve released the movie with almost the same story line (that too when SHIVAJI is fresh in the minds of tamil audience)...the fight against corruption is the main theme of the movie (wasnt GENTLEMAN,MUTHALVAN,INDIAN,ANNIYAN,SAMURAI and SHIVAJI enough ??) and it has been told and retold by many earlier and most of them met with success because of the novelty in story telling and performance of the stars but KANDHASAMY doesnot have anything novel to offer...the songs werent catchy...the stunts below par when compared to many other movies released recently...the performances of the actors were also mediocre....the only plus point according to me is the comedy track involving Vadivelu (and I think those parts were added to the movie at a later stage to include some comedy element which was missing in the movie otherwise)
The movie released in muscat on 20-08-09 (Thursday),a day before the chennai release and me being a hardcore movie fan wanted to watch it on the first day itself and since my bday just passed (17-08) I thought I wud offer this movie as my treat to my friends ..so I asked one of my friend to book the tickets (16tkts) and was overwhelmed with joy when my friend told that he managed to get the tickets…then I asked my friends to join me for the movie…so by 9.30 pm we were all present in the theater and we had to wait for about 30mins outside the theater coz the earlier show ended late (the movie is 3hrs +) and it was bloody hot outside and we were sweating like pigs (do pigs sweat ?? - just checked the net and realised that my usage is wrong - sweating like pig means doing nothing or LAZY and pigs don’t have sweat glands!! Anyway I hope you understood what I meant)…people started to complain and I convinced them stating after a LONG wait comes GOOD things (Dialogukkonnum kurachil ille!!)…..atlast the movie started by 10/10.10 pm and the movie hall was almost full (Housefull I suppose) and the people were all in good mood…obviously most of them were Vikram fans and had come to watch their CHIYAN in action after a long gap (his last outing BHEEMA was a superflop)…
The opening scene shows devotees praying in front of a Murugan aka KANDHASAMY temple and tying their petitions on the branches of a tree coz it is believed that all those petitions will be answered by Lord Kandhasamy…..a woman asks for Rs.100,000/-for her husband's surgery and nextday she sees a bag containing Rs.100,000/- in front of her house…she being a honest woman took the bag to the nearby police station and handed it over to the inspector…the corrupt inspector (played by Mansoor Ali Khan) takes the bag for himself….the same night while he was asleep a mysterious man (???) disguised as a human COCK (hope u understood what I meant!!) attacks him and asks him to give back the money to the lady and then brands his face with a SPEAR symbol (Lord Kandhasamy's weapon)…this scene and getup reminds me of a scene from the French movie VIDOCQ (released -2001) (honestly the only sentence/word I know in french is J'et aime…..I watched the movie VIDOCQ with subtitiles and watched it just a couple of weeks back) where a mysterious man/creature called ALCHEMIST disguises like a BAT with a mirror in the place of face and the action sequences were almost similar though without the COCK mimicing ….next morning when the inspector gets up he is not sure if it was a nightmare or a real happening coz the only evidence of such a thing happened is the branding on his face….a few such incidents and the news spreads like wildfire and the temple is crowded with people asking for divine intervention in solving their issues…..
So now one face of Vikram is shown…now coming to the 2nd face….Vikram is a strict and no-nonsense CBI officer who toils hard to eradicate corruption (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!!).The action begins with a raid in Asish Vidyarthi's house….Vikram finds out where Asish keeps his secret documents and manages to seize the documents…Asish Vidyarthi will fake a paralysis (I dunno why the hell he did that…..there is no apparent reason for such a drama) and now Sreya (Asish's daughter) wants to take revenge (Look whos playing BAD girl!!) and she tries to harass or trap Vikram (She goes to Vikram's office and tears off her clothes ………we were all expecting her to tear off a lil more so that atleast we cudve consoled ourself saying - What the hell..we got our money's worth……but unfortunately that too didn’t happen..)
The rest of the story is about how Vikram succeeds in fighting the baddies and a flashback to show us why Vikram and his pals chose to play KANDHASAMY…..the only HIGHLIGHT of the movie is Vikram's disguise as a SEVAL and he to a great extent managed to imitate the actions of a cock (Ivar seval vesham pottu aadarathu pakkaruthukka namma 2.5 varshama kathukkittirunthom ???)…..then there is the female getup which fails to make any impact…Why such gimmicks ?? what are they trying to prove ??......the movie wudve done better if they gave KANDHASAMY a superhero image like KRRISH (atleast kids wudve been happy!!) but director failed to do that also (in the movie itself they explains that the stunts were choreographed with the use of technology and no superpower is involved!!)….the fight scene in Mexico where a blindfolded Vikram defeating the goons are nothing new to us…..Didn’t we see the same thing in Lalettan's YODHA (malayalam movie directed by Rajiv Anchal) which was released before a decade and half ???....even my tamil friends wud remember the movie coz it was dubbed to tamil with the title ASOKAN and telecasted in various tamil channels (esp RAJ TV) numerous times….the actions sequences and overseas locales wudve entertained us few years before coz we werent exposed to such sequences but now we have cable-tv even in the remotest of the villages and people watch hollywood blockbusters on a daily basis so our cheap imitation of hollywood style wont impress them like earlier days….they will watch a movie only if it has something new or entertaining to offer….AYAN/ANNIYAN/SHIVAJI etc had something new to offer and it had some good performances and catchy songs whereas KANDHASAMY has nothing to offer….(Sreya's costumes in song sequences made sure that songs will be WATCHED and remembered eventhough not HEARD and remembered!!!)
First half of the movies was somewhat okey coz we were all expecting that there will be twists and turns as the movie progresses but by the beginning of second half we were pretty sure that NOTHING interesting is going to happen and this realisation made watching the rest of the movie a painful experience…I think the director realised that something is missing when he reached climax and then he inserted an ITEM SONG (Enna kodumai SUSI GANESAN sir ithu….)…Mumaith Khan's dance was missed by most I suppose (coz most of them were almost asleep…it was 1.00AM) and at last after that song director decided to end the movie and there is a climax court scene and like in all movies the HERO, though committed some mistakes was pardoned by the court coz he did what he did for the benefit of the society….
Intha padam pathathukkapparam en friends enne (Aint I the one who made them watch this atrocity ??) kollame vittathukku ore oru reason thaan irukku…coz like them I was also a victim and they knew very well that I did this without malice and I am innocent…..
Some points/questions
1) I really don’t understand why the film took 2.5 years to complete…..
2) Why the hell is Vikram wasting years on such stupid projects ?
3) Why is KALAIPULI THANU (producer) still taking such risks after his AALAVANTHAN experience ?
4) The movie is supposed to be KOLLYWOODs answer to HOLLYWOOD….in what way ???
5) Makeup for makeup's sake will not help in running a movie (the lady getup,the oldman getup etc)…we have seen too much makeup in recent years (AVVAI SHANMUGHI,INDIAN,CITIZEN,DASAVATHARAM,ANNIYAN,PERAZHAGAN,VARANAM AAYIRAM,ANBE SIVAM etc) and it doesn’t fascinate us anymore….
The movie had it all...a producer who gave him an almost unlimited budget (Paavam manushan!!!)...a mass hero like Vikram...eyecandy Shreya...ilaya thilakam Prabhu...a seasoned villain like Asish Vidyarthi etc etc but the movie lacked one thing A GOOD STORY to accommodate all the above....the story (can i call it that ??) has been told a 100 tyms by 100 directors and the most prominent among them is SHANKAR...I dont know if Susi Ganesan had seen SHIVAJI...coz if he has I dont think he wudve released the movie with almost the same story line (that too when SHIVAJI is fresh in the minds of tamil audience)...the fight against corruption is the main theme of the movie (wasnt GENTLEMAN,MUTHALVAN,INDIAN,ANNIYAN,SAMURAI and SHIVAJI enough ??) and it has been told and retold by many earlier and most of them met with success because of the novelty in story telling and performance of the stars but KANDHASAMY doesnot have anything novel to offer...the songs werent catchy...the stunts below par when compared to many other movies released recently...the performances of the actors were also mediocre....the only plus point according to me is the comedy track involving Vadivelu (and I think those parts were added to the movie at a later stage to include some comedy element which was missing in the movie otherwise)
The movie released in muscat on 20-08-09 (Thursday),a day before the chennai release and me being a hardcore movie fan wanted to watch it on the first day itself and since my bday just passed (17-08) I thought I wud offer this movie as my treat to my friends ..so I asked one of my friend to book the tickets (16tkts) and was overwhelmed with joy when my friend told that he managed to get the tickets…then I asked my friends to join me for the movie…so by 9.30 pm we were all present in the theater and we had to wait for about 30mins outside the theater coz the earlier show ended late (the movie is 3hrs +) and it was bloody hot outside and we were sweating like pigs (do pigs sweat ?? - just checked the net and realised that my usage is wrong - sweating like pig means doing nothing or LAZY and pigs don’t have sweat glands!! Anyway I hope you understood what I meant)…people started to complain and I convinced them stating after a LONG wait comes GOOD things (Dialogukkonnum kurachil ille!!)…..atlast the movie started by 10/10.10 pm and the movie hall was almost full (Housefull I suppose) and the people were all in good mood…obviously most of them were Vikram fans and had come to watch their CHIYAN in action after a long gap (his last outing BHEEMA was a superflop)…
The opening scene shows devotees praying in front of a Murugan aka KANDHASAMY temple and tying their petitions on the branches of a tree coz it is believed that all those petitions will be answered by Lord Kandhasamy…..a woman asks for Rs.100,000/-for her husband's surgery and nextday she sees a bag containing Rs.100,000/- in front of her house…she being a honest woman took the bag to the nearby police station and handed it over to the inspector…the corrupt inspector (played by Mansoor Ali Khan) takes the bag for himself….the same night while he was asleep a mysterious man (???) disguised as a human COCK (hope u understood what I meant!!) attacks him and asks him to give back the money to the lady and then brands his face with a SPEAR symbol (Lord Kandhasamy's weapon)…this scene and getup reminds me of a scene from the French movie VIDOCQ (released -2001) (honestly the only sentence/word I know in french is J'et aime…..I watched the movie VIDOCQ with subtitiles and watched it just a couple of weeks back) where a mysterious man/creature called ALCHEMIST disguises like a BAT with a mirror in the place of face and the action sequences were almost similar though without the COCK mimicing ….next morning when the inspector gets up he is not sure if it was a nightmare or a real happening coz the only evidence of such a thing happened is the branding on his face….a few such incidents and the news spreads like wildfire and the temple is crowded with people asking for divine intervention in solving their issues…..
So now one face of Vikram is shown…now coming to the 2nd face….Vikram is a strict and no-nonsense CBI officer who toils hard to eradicate corruption (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!!).The action begins with a raid in Asish Vidyarthi's house….Vikram finds out where Asish keeps his secret documents and manages to seize the documents…Asish Vidyarthi will fake a paralysis (I dunno why the hell he did that…..there is no apparent reason for such a drama) and now Sreya (Asish's daughter) wants to take revenge (Look whos playing BAD girl!!) and she tries to harass or trap Vikram (She goes to Vikram's office and tears off her clothes ………we were all expecting her to tear off a lil more so that atleast we cudve consoled ourself saying - What the hell..we got our money's worth……but unfortunately that too didn’t happen..)
The rest of the story is about how Vikram succeeds in fighting the baddies and a flashback to show us why Vikram and his pals chose to play KANDHASAMY…..the only HIGHLIGHT of the movie is Vikram's disguise as a SEVAL and he to a great extent managed to imitate the actions of a cock (Ivar seval vesham pottu aadarathu pakkaruthukka namma 2.5 varshama kathukkittirunthom ???)…..then there is the female getup which fails to make any impact…Why such gimmicks ?? what are they trying to prove ??......the movie wudve done better if they gave KANDHASAMY a superhero image like KRRISH (atleast kids wudve been happy!!) but director failed to do that also (in the movie itself they explains that the stunts were choreographed with the use of technology and no superpower is involved!!)….the fight scene in Mexico where a blindfolded Vikram defeating the goons are nothing new to us…..Didn’t we see the same thing in Lalettan's YODHA (malayalam movie directed by Rajiv Anchal) which was released before a decade and half ???....even my tamil friends wud remember the movie coz it was dubbed to tamil with the title ASOKAN and telecasted in various tamil channels (esp RAJ TV) numerous times….the actions sequences and overseas locales wudve entertained us few years before coz we werent exposed to such sequences but now we have cable-tv even in the remotest of the villages and people watch hollywood blockbusters on a daily basis so our cheap imitation of hollywood style wont impress them like earlier days….they will watch a movie only if it has something new or entertaining to offer….AYAN/ANNIYAN/SHIVAJI etc had something new to offer and it had some good performances and catchy songs whereas KANDHASAMY has nothing to offer….(Sreya's costumes in song sequences made sure that songs will be WATCHED and remembered eventhough not HEARD and remembered!!!)
First half of the movies was somewhat okey coz we were all expecting that there will be twists and turns as the movie progresses but by the beginning of second half we were pretty sure that NOTHING interesting is going to happen and this realisation made watching the rest of the movie a painful experience…I think the director realised that something is missing when he reached climax and then he inserted an ITEM SONG (Enna kodumai SUSI GANESAN sir ithu….)…Mumaith Khan's dance was missed by most I suppose (coz most of them were almost asleep…it was 1.00AM) and at last after that song director decided to end the movie and there is a climax court scene and like in all movies the HERO, though committed some mistakes was pardoned by the court coz he did what he did for the benefit of the society….
Intha padam pathathukkapparam en friends enne (Aint I the one who made them watch this atrocity ??) kollame vittathukku ore oru reason thaan irukku…coz like them I was also a victim and they knew very well that I did this without malice and I am innocent…..
Some points/questions
1) I really don’t understand why the film took 2.5 years to complete…..
2) Why the hell is Vikram wasting years on such stupid projects ?
3) Why is KALAIPULI THANU (producer) still taking such risks after his AALAVANTHAN experience ?
4) The movie is supposed to be KOLLYWOODs answer to HOLLYWOOD….in what way ???
5) Makeup for makeup's sake will not help in running a movie (the lady getup,the oldman getup etc)…we have seen too much makeup in recent years (AVVAI SHANMUGHI,INDIAN,CITIZEN,DASAVATHARAM,ANNIYAN,PERAZHAGAN,VARANAM AAYIRAM,ANBE SIVAM etc) and it doesn’t fascinate us anymore….
AVATAR - IMAX(3D) - MY REVIEW
I have been to Dubai this weekend (for us the weekend is thursday friday) with my colleagues and we had different agendas for thr trip..mine was to watch AVATAR in IMAX and celebrate Xmass eve in some happening place and I must say that both of the above wishes got fulfilled.
AVATAR is crowned as the most expensive movie ($500 mil) made in the history of cinema and I think it will remain so for atleast a couple of years unless James Cameron or Rolland Emmerich decide to make something more grander and more FUNtastic.The credit for the success of the movie should go to James Cameron and his special FX team (who I think managed to create whatever James Cameron envisioned inside his head) and the bosses of 20th century fox who trusted/backed/funded James Cameron for making this GIANT of a movie.I have not seen anything before that could rival the IMAX-3D experience of watching AVATAR (I am 101 % honest about this statement).I felt like I was in the middle of whats happening onscreen (thanks to the magic of 3D which I am sure is the most HAPPENING thing in Visual Media arena now).The below is my review abt the movie..If u think I am exagerating then I wud request you to watch the movie in a theater with decent A/V system (like SATHYAM theater in chennai or the IMAX'es in Pune,Hyderabad or elsewhere).
The action takes place in AD-2154 and the main venue of the action is a planet called PANDORA which is populated by the Na'vi people.A billionnaire entrepreneur hires a team of scientists to tame the people of Na'vi and to find a way to ensure their cooperation to start mining operations in Pandora to dig out a precious metal that fetches $20 Mil/Kg in the international market.He also hires a team of highly trained mercenaries (Ex-US MARINES) as back up in case the scientists fails to ensure the Na'vi cooperation.The team of scientists are headed by Sigourney Weaver who is also an authority in the field of Na'vi way life and culture.They have created replicas of Na'vi like people (Lab-made and lifeless) and can give life to them by transferring the energy from human beings…so that "Na'vi" will have the body of a Na'vi and character of human being whose energy is bonded to it.This project is called the AVATAR project and they intend to send this clones to PANDORA to mingle with the natives and to become one of them so that they will be able to persuade the Na'vi's to allow mining operations.Jake Sully(Sam Worthington) is the main candidate and he is an EX-Marine (Paralysed below the waist) and is the twin brother of the scientist (who died before the movie begins) who was supposed to go to the Na'vi.
Jake Sully ventures into the forests of Pandora in his Avatar persona ….we are treated with breath taking vista of Pandora's forests…self illuminating plants and flies and many other magnificent creatures which will make us jaws drop….he was attacked by some dog like creatures (its like the dogs in Resident Evil movie but more vicious and agile) and suddenly a Na'vi huntress (I think that’s Zoe Saldana in her Na'vi getup) appears in the scene and she manages to protect Jake from the attack but she was very sad that she had to kill one of the creature..coz its becoz of Jake's ignorance that he got attacked and the fault lies with Jake rather than the creatures….she takes him to the head of their clan (Her dad) and siad that he is approved by Eowah (Maybe a variation of the ancient YEHVEH or JEHOVAH)…then her mom (A shaman or seer of the clan) asks her to teach him the Na'vi language and the ways of their life….the more he learns the more he starts empathising with the people and realises that the place where the Mineral deposit is found is actually the most sacred place of the Na'vis and that they wont allow anyone to desecrate the site…..he is in a dilemma…whether to support his team of human beings or should support the Na'avi people who accepted him as one of their own (btw…by this time he manged to fall in love with his tutor and make love) and the rest of the story is about what happens between the Human beings and the people of Na'vi….
My opinion
1) This is the best visual experience you will ever get watching a movie (atleast in the near future)
2) James Cameron has proved that "HE IS THE KING OF THE WORLD" (atleast the celluloid world)
3) Every penny spent is well spent and you could see all that on screen…
4) Despite the criticsm that it lacks in emotional content I felt that its more emotional than most of the movies I have seen..and like Ram Gopal Varma said in his blog…you don’t see the emotions coz u are awestruck by the visual treat happening on screen.
5) Watching the movie in small screen will be an injustice…you have to watch it in the biggest screen possible with the best audio system..and according to me I am lucky to watch it in an IMAX screen and in 3D format (nothing beats that experience)
6) Every scene that happens in Pandora can be screen captured and made into a PICTURE POST CARD…that’s the beauty of the frames…be it floating mountains…beautiful waterfalls…brightly colored/flurocent flying beings and plants…
7) If you think my review is not as good as my previews reviews then its coz I have tooooo much to write about the movie and I cant find enough superlatives to fill the pages…
AVATAR is crowned as the most expensive movie ($500 mil) made in the history of cinema and I think it will remain so for atleast a couple of years unless James Cameron or Rolland Emmerich decide to make something more grander and more FUNtastic.The credit for the success of the movie should go to James Cameron and his special FX team (who I think managed to create whatever James Cameron envisioned inside his head) and the bosses of 20th century fox who trusted/backed/funded James Cameron for making this GIANT of a movie.I have not seen anything before that could rival the IMAX-3D experience of watching AVATAR (I am 101 % honest about this statement).I felt like I was in the middle of whats happening onscreen (thanks to the magic of 3D which I am sure is the most HAPPENING thing in Visual Media arena now).The below is my review abt the movie..If u think I am exagerating then I wud request you to watch the movie in a theater with decent A/V system (like SATHYAM theater in chennai or the IMAX'es in Pune,Hyderabad or elsewhere).
The action takes place in AD-2154 and the main venue of the action is a planet called PANDORA which is populated by the Na'vi people.A billionnaire entrepreneur hires a team of scientists to tame the people of Na'vi and to find a way to ensure their cooperation to start mining operations in Pandora to dig out a precious metal that fetches $20 Mil/Kg in the international market.He also hires a team of highly trained mercenaries (Ex-US MARINES) as back up in case the scientists fails to ensure the Na'vi cooperation.The team of scientists are headed by Sigourney Weaver who is also an authority in the field of Na'vi way life and culture.They have created replicas of Na'vi like people (Lab-made and lifeless) and can give life to them by transferring the energy from human beings…so that "Na'vi" will have the body of a Na'vi and character of human being whose energy is bonded to it.This project is called the AVATAR project and they intend to send this clones to PANDORA to mingle with the natives and to become one of them so that they will be able to persuade the Na'vi's to allow mining operations.Jake Sully(Sam Worthington) is the main candidate and he is an EX-Marine (Paralysed below the waist) and is the twin brother of the scientist (who died before the movie begins) who was supposed to go to the Na'vi.
Jake Sully ventures into the forests of Pandora in his Avatar persona ….we are treated with breath taking vista of Pandora's forests…self illuminating plants and flies and many other magnificent creatures which will make us jaws drop….he was attacked by some dog like creatures (its like the dogs in Resident Evil movie but more vicious and agile) and suddenly a Na'vi huntress (I think that’s Zoe Saldana in her Na'vi getup) appears in the scene and she manages to protect Jake from the attack but she was very sad that she had to kill one of the creature..coz its becoz of Jake's ignorance that he got attacked and the fault lies with Jake rather than the creatures….she takes him to the head of their clan (Her dad) and siad that he is approved by Eowah (Maybe a variation of the ancient YEHVEH or JEHOVAH)…then her mom (A shaman or seer of the clan) asks her to teach him the Na'vi language and the ways of their life….the more he learns the more he starts empathising with the people and realises that the place where the Mineral deposit is found is actually the most sacred place of the Na'vis and that they wont allow anyone to desecrate the site…..he is in a dilemma…whether to support his team of human beings or should support the Na'avi people who accepted him as one of their own (btw…by this time he manged to fall in love with his tutor and make love) and the rest of the story is about what happens between the Human beings and the people of Na'vi….
My opinion
1) This is the best visual experience you will ever get watching a movie (atleast in the near future)
2) James Cameron has proved that "HE IS THE KING OF THE WORLD" (atleast the celluloid world)
3) Every penny spent is well spent and you could see all that on screen…
4) Despite the criticsm that it lacks in emotional content I felt that its more emotional than most of the movies I have seen..and like Ram Gopal Varma said in his blog…you don’t see the emotions coz u are awestruck by the visual treat happening on screen.
5) Watching the movie in small screen will be an injustice…you have to watch it in the biggest screen possible with the best audio system..and according to me I am lucky to watch it in an IMAX screen and in 3D format (nothing beats that experience)
6) Every scene that happens in Pandora can be screen captured and made into a PICTURE POST CARD…that’s the beauty of the frames…be it floating mountains…beautiful waterfalls…brightly colored/flurocent flying beings and plants…
7) If you think my review is not as good as my previews reviews then its coz I have tooooo much to write about the movie and I cant find enough superlatives to fill the pages…
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