"Avatar."

The movie “Avatar” is about a paraplegic guy in a wheel chair named Jake Sully. He was previously in the military and became injured. The beginning of the movie is a little confusing because it consists of flashbacks of Jake’s life and how he woke up on a space ship traveling to Pandora, which is a planet of all blue people. In the beginning you find out that Jake has a twin brother that died who was a scientist. Since Jake and his brother Tom have an exact genetic match, the people on the ship presented him with an opportunity, which was to take over his brother’s contract on the ship. Jake would travel to Pandora and become one of the blue people. The reason for Jake to be placed on Pandora was to send a message to the people, but act like he was one of them so that they welcomed him. In order to get to Pandora, Jake had to jump into a machine with some kind of mask over his face. After going there Jake becomes very comfortable with the people and they accept him as their own. While Jake is there he realizes that the Colonel that he is working for on the ship is trying to take over the land of Pandora. Jake and every one on the ship refer to the people as “avatar” and while Jake is there he quickly and unexpectedly falls in love with one of the aliens, Neytiri. The rest of the movie is Jake trying to convince the people on the ship to not ruin their land and he ends up choosing the avatars side.

Personally, I did not like this movie at all. I knew from the beginning that I wouldn’t like it because blue aliens are not my thing. The plot of the story was decent, but the movie was dragged out for three hours. There was many times where I was asking myself when the hell they were going to die. I also thought it was stupid because Jake was not one of them. If anyone shut off his machine or intentionally pulled him out of the machine, which they did, he would go right back to being human. The thing that I did enjoy about the movie was the special effects, but that’s about it. I do not think I would ever willingly watch this movie again. I felt like it was a waste of time.