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I'm not sure what to say. I feel the way I knew I would feel about this movie; Loved the movie, Hated the story. The story is against everything I believe in, its a praise of not just "multi-culturalism" but of "other-culturalism" to the detrimate of technologically and economically advanced cultures. This is a story that I would expect to come out of Hollywood; the "evil" corporations bent on destroying the "aborigines" because they are squatting on a literal gold-mine of unimaginable profit are defeated by the ultimate underdogs, the "good", thoughtful, complete, complex, well-meaning tribes of the fantastic world of Pandora.

Besides my reservations concerning the storyline of this naive morality play, I loved the movie.

Sigourney Weaver steals the show despite her minor role. She is a power-house presence in any movie, and just her character in a science-fiction movie brings immediate plausability to the film's alternate reality.

Sam Worthington is very good, and is equal to Sigourney Weaver's presence.

Stephen Lang is another standout as the post Colonel, and is a great face for the "evil" the corporation represents. Giovanni Ribisi is great as the weasly side of the corporation, and reminded me of Paul Reiser's role in "Aliens"; a corp creep.

Anyway, great movie, horrible story. James Cameron produced a world that we can believe, and the mix between the world of humanity and the world of cgi pandora is very nicely done. It's almost seemless.

I hope you hate/love it as much as I did! ;)

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