[Laneco]

Steve and I saw this last night. The story line is decent, a little rehashed but decent. The visuals in this movie are absolutely stunning (saw it in 3D). Worth the price of admission all by itself. It's one of those movies that you find your eyes scanning the screen and trying to take all of it in. Probably could watch it ten times just for the scenery. Anybody scuba drive? You remember the first time you got dropped off over a very healthy tropical reef and you tried to see EVERTHING? The movie feels like that.

The native speech is very interesting. I swear that I am hearing a real language. It has the cadence and patterns that make it completely believable. Like they actually used a rare but genuine language for the movie (native american for example).

This story sets itself up very nicely for a sequel. Imagine that the mining company decides they need to take a second run at the planet. Only instead of combining the human dna with the humanoids, they pick one of the particularly violent predators on the planet...

This is probably not a good movie for young kids. The violent scenes are startlingly real and there is one scene of surprising sensuality. It's also about two and a half hours long. The "Green" messages in the movie are very strong. Works for me, but it might really annoy other people. Personally, I don't get too wrapped up in the so called messages of movies. I just enjoy them.

This movie? Enjoyed it greatly. Probably see it a second time on the big screen.

angela