Avatar

Avatar is a American sicience fiction film by James Cameron. The film was released in traditional 2-D, as well as in 3-D, using the RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, and IMAX 3D formats. Avatar is officially budgeted at $237 million. Other estimates put the cost at $280–310 million to produce and $150 million for marketing.

Name: Avatar

Directed by: James Cameron

Produced by: James Cameron Jon Landau

Music by: James Horner

Cinematography: Mauro Fiore

Studio: Lightstorm Entertainment Dune Entertainment Ingenious Film Partners

Distributed by: 20th Century Fox

Release dates: December 10, 2009(London premiere)

               December 18, 2009(United States)

               January 2, 2010(China)

Running time: 162 minutes

Country: United States

Language: English

Genre: action thriller science fiction

In 2154, the RDA corporation is mining in Pandora, a planet in the Alpha Centauri star system. The corporation intends to exploit Pandora's reserves of a valuable mineral called unobtanium. A species called Na'vi, a ten-foot-tall blue-skinned species with tails, inhabit in Pandora. They live in harmony with nature and dislike human's behaviour of mining in their habitat.

Pandora's atmosphere is toxic to humans, so scientists grow Na'vi bodies modified with human DNA, called avatars, controlled by genetically matched, mentally linked human operators to mine unobtanium for human. Jake Sully, a paraplegic former Marine, replaces his twin brother who was murdered to control the avatar.

However, Jake is attacked by a predator and lost in Pandora. Neytiri, a female Na'vi, saves him and brings him to her Hometree. Over three months, Jake grows close to Neytiri and her clan called Omaticaya, eventually rejecting RDA's agenda.

In order to mine unobtanium beneath the Hometree , human decides destroy it. Jake reveals his original mission to the Neytiri and her clan, and Neytiri sees him as a betrayer. Then, the human’s forces arrive and destroy the Hometree. And Jake is imprisoned by Quaritch, the leader of the forces, but he escapes.

Then, Jake comes back to the Omaticaya to regain their trust. With the assistance of Neytiri, Jake assembles over two thousand Na'vi from other clans to repel the humans. Finally, they defeat the human’s forces. The remaining corporate personnel are expelled from Pandora.

"Watching Avatar, I felt sort of the same as when I saw Star Wars in 1977."

—Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times

"the script is a little bit obvious, but that is part of what made it work."

—A. O. Scott of At The Movies

"It extends the possibilities of what movies can do. Cameron's talent may just be as big as his dreams."

—Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers

"Embrace the movie—surely the most vivid and convincing creation of a fantasy world ever seen in the history of moving pictures."

—Richard Corliss of Time magazine 

"Avatar is a great epic, a imaginative film which brings us a new life experience."

"Avatar is a combination of great special effects and perfect plot."

"Avatar gives me a lesson—our human beings should examine our own conscience and protect our nature."

—All from filmgoers

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