Avatar Reviews
I've watched "Avatar" so many times that, according to some reports, it could be unhealthy.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 27, 2024
It is every bit the technical achievement that Cameron promised it would be. However, there is no dodging its weak, underwhelming story. And I don't go back to rewatch The Terminator, Aliens or T2 time after time for the special effects.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2024
“Avatar” remains a transporting experience – an entertaining blend of old-fashioned adventure and technological wonder.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2024
'Avatar' is not just a visual display. It contains heart, humor, and all the aspects needed to make it a well-rounded story. Sure, the script could have been punched up with something more poetic and less obvious. Still, it’s not a bad egg.
| Original Score: B+ | Jan 9, 2024
To be sure, this is an engaging experience in every sense, from the dramatic to the visual to the visceral. This is how blockbusters should be.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 28, 2023
STUNNING epic. Zoe Saldana performance… A fantastic one
| Jul 25, 2023
It’s the world of Pandora married to the groundbreaking technology used to bring it to life that makes "Avatar" impressive, but it otherwise comes across as hollow, spectacle for the sake of it with little else to offer.
| Jul 6, 2023
Cameron is a master filmmaker whose movies will endure long after he stops making movies.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 23, 2023
While the visuals might rate four stars, the screenplay guarantees this falls well below more compatible marriages of substance and style found in such ground-breakers as the original King Kong, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Cameron’s own Terminator films.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2023
A groundbreaking technical achievement in filmmaking. The impressive visual effects and amazing world building more than make up for one of Cameron's weaker stories. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2023
Combining cutting-edge technology with classic, earnest storytelling is firmly the hallmark of this series, and it honestly gave me almost everything I wanted from it.
| Dec 16, 2022
Three hours breeze into deep relationships, action-packed sequences, and a tale that deserves to be repeatedly seen in cinema. #diandrareviews
| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 14, 2022
It’s not just that we’ve seen the tale before… it’s that every aspect of the screenplay is terrible.
| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 7, 2022
Cameron’s epic can still thrill the audience with breathtaking set pieces, bring them to tears with moving moments, and amaze people willing to explore a fantasy land like no other.
| Original Score: A | Oct 12, 2022
Avatar still elicits much of the same wide-eyed wonderment.
| Oct 5, 2022
The emotional stakes presented in the final battle make it so powerful, going beyond the physical scale of the sequence and what the visual effects artists achieved to create a stunning, rousing piece of filmmaking.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 30, 2022
Thirteen years after its release, 'Avatar' still proves to be an exceptional blockbuster that makes the most of a simple and predictable story, to develop a visually awesome and emotional experience that must be had in the cinema. Full review in Spanish.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 28, 2022
The standard in modern blockbuster filmmaking. I don’t make the rules.
| Sep 26, 2022
A meaningful blockbuster that fails to play ignorant to craft or soul, it is no wonder that so many have fallen in love with the world of Pandora and the drama that takes place on it.
| Sep 26, 2022
[W]atching Avatar‘s 4K HDR format on IMAX 3D looks more incredible and visually stunning than the original 3D version in 2009.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 25, 2022