Review Plot Film Avatar (2009)

In AD 2154, a human corporation is engaged in the colonization of Pandora, the lush moon of Polyphemus, one of three gas giants that orbit Alpha Centauri A, 4.3 light years from Earth. The humans seek to exploit Pandora’s reserves of a precious mineral called unobtainium.

Pandora is inhabited by an indigenous species of sentient humanoids called the Na’vi. Standing nine feet tall, with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Na’vi live in harmony with the natural world around them, and are considered primitive by human standards. Humans are unable to breathe the Pandoran atmosphere, and peaceful interaction with the Na’vi is difficult. Human researchers, led by Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) created the Avatar Program, taking human and Na’vi DNA and using it to genetically engineer human-Na’vi hybrid bodies called Avatars.

A human who shares genetic material with the Avatar can be mentally linked to it, allowing them to control its functions and experience what it experiences, while their own body sleeps. The story’s protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a former U.S. Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. His twin brother Tony was a scientist working on the Avatar program; when he is killed, Jake is extended the opportunity to take his brother’s place, as he shares Tony’s genetic material and is therefore compatible with his avatar.

Jake travels to Pandora and assumes control of his Avatar body, delighted at being able to walk and run once again as a whole being. Sent deep into Pandora’s jungles as a scout for the soldiers that will follow, Jake encounters many of Pandora’s beauties and dangers. There he meets a young Na’vi female, Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), who teaches him the ways of her people: the Omaticaya clan of the Na’vi. Despite having originally been sent to gain the trust of the Na’vi clan, and convince them to abandon their Hometree, which sits above a large deposit of unobtainium, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth, and his love for his adopted home and people. The humans attack and destroy the Hometree, forcing the Na’vi to flee. The Na’vi feel betrayed by Jake, ostracizing him from the tribe. Jake tames the Toruk, a formidable winged creature, and in doing so earns back the respect of the Na’vi. They assemble thousands of natives from other tribes and lead them into battle with the increasingly violent human forces, in order to save their race and their world. The film ends with Jake permanently transferring his consciousness from his human form to his Na’vi avatar by way of a Na’vi ritual.

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CrazyIvan on January 7th, 2010 at 10:54 am

@will I’d giv it an 8/10
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