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Actors:  Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore
Rating:  10 out of 10, Cameron surprises again.  Even thought this movie had a huge amount of buzz before it came out I went into it thinking it would be another one of those CGI dependent movies that just wanted to awe you with what they could do and forget about an actual story.  Boy was I wrong, this movie is simply great.  He did the same thing to me with Titanic.  This movie is groundbreaking because it takes CGI to a new much higher level.  Earlier animated type movies made you think you were watching cartoons.  Here you quickly forget this is an almost completely CGI world.  Everything seems so real, the special effects truly are seamless.  Cameron truly is a genius for putting all the money he spends on a movie up on the screen for all of us to see.  The story is incredibly engaging and a sledge hammer subtle jab at what we're doing to our own world ecologically.  I still don't know what to make of Worthington.  He's extremely competent but I just don't get the reason he is getting all the roles that he is.  Saldana is once again transcendent as the romantic interest even though most of her character is computer generated; her performance shines through.  Lang is a little over the top as the mad, military leader of the humans but it wasn't too far off the mark as I met many guys like this in the military.  It would be easy to see one of them going off the deep end in an isolated post such as this.  Bravo Cameron, once again you have made movie history by not forgetting why we go to movies in the first place; a great story, characters you care about and the magnificent fight against impossible odds.
MVP:  Saldana as Neytiri, still incredibly, yet uncomfortably, sexy even as an 8 foot tall alien