Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang
Directed By: James Cameron

Avatar (2009) is one of those ‘don’t judge a book by its cover films’. Just on the first trailer alone it seemed director James Cameron had been overdosing on his FernGully: The Last Rainforest video. Plus the promo art, for all its build up, was less than inspiring; looking something akin to an early nineties Rutger Hauer movie.

Though being as this has nothing to do with the content of the film itself, it is irrelevant. It isn’t, of course, because even on a subliminal level factors such as these can affect a viewing experience. But it is supposed to be. Enlightening then that despite such predilections, Avatar still manages to be the sci-fi movie we always wanted, yet perhaps never really expected.
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