The magic has been cast - You just need to experience it.

Movie review: Avatar (2009)

I do believe there must be a law against those who do not keep their mobile phones in silent mode or switched off in theater. To my utter dissatisfaction, the annoying ringtone of the person sitting next to me dragged me back from year 2154 making me travel through space some 4.3 light years from the beautiful world of  Pandora straight back to a movie hall in Bangalore. But when a true magician is pulling his greatest magic tricks in front of you, how long can you stay away from entering his magic world? Soon I was back.

Yes, James Cameron is a masterful magician and "Avatar" is his greatest magic trick so far. Cameron dreamt his magic world; spent years to shape his dream and then presented it before the entire world. And the world lived his dream. The world has been spellbound !! There are movies with strong storyline, exceptional acting and moving emotions; and then there is "Avatar" - an experience beyond cinema, beyond words - an 'expression of beauty' beyond vision - a thrill beyond imagination.

And yes, "Avatar" has a story-line too. Even if it doesn't; it would have been the same overwhelming experience. After all, how many times your dreams have a perfect story? Set in a future world, "Avatar" is set in a distant moon in the galaxy called "Pandora". The life in Pandora is simple, bound by nature and its energy. The world is unimaginably beautiful covered with vivid colors, filled with various forms of animal life. US Marines are on a mining mission on the moon to extract invaluable minerals from Pandora and to use it back home. To be successful in their mission; they must persuade the native tribes of the moon, the Na'vi, to surrender their land and move away. Marine Jack Sully (played by Sam Worthington) agrees to assist in the mission as an Avatar, genetically created Na'vi like figure, in exchange for the costly treatment of his paralyzed legs. But soon he was caught between the two worlds - the nature-loving, simple Na'vi s and greedy, arrogant army of Colonel Miles Quaritch (played by Stephen Lang).

The movie is so visually stunning, the 3D effects are so exceptionally developed that you cannot help wondering if cinematic achievement could be this grandeur. For me, those 2 hours 40 minutes had been such a fun - such an experience that however cliche it may sound like; I have to say, "I have lost words to describe". That's why they have invented the word 'experience', I guess. Watch "Avatar", watch it in 3D, get awe-struck and then? Well then what mate? Of course, then watch it again, get awe-struck again.......