Avatar
Directed by James Cameron
Three and One Half Stars
Much like Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” Trilogy earlier this decade, James Cameron has created with “Avatar” a world that I would like to experience first hand. I want to stand on the road-like branches of these mountainous trees. I want to see the moist glossy fauna of the forest floor illuminate under my bare feet and swim in the stainless crystal springs. I want to emerge from the cover of the canopy and the heavy fog and see the Hallelujah Mountains floating in the sky above me. More than anything else in “Avatar”, the lush and ethereally beautiful planet of Pandora is Cameron’s crowning achievement.
