You could take some LSD, watch dances with wolves followed the Smurf movie and feel that you had seen this. The movie is three dimensional but the characters are only two. It was written for the same audience that were shocked when the Titanic sunk in James Camerons last blockbuster. Cameron has not had an original movie for decades and the fact that this is a cover of an obscure english comic book, pocohontas, dances with wolves et all, is beside the point. Everything is derivitave nowdays and this was well done. This is a blockbuster because of the brilliant special effects. The story is as timeless as Columbus and the indigenous people are ar always, as pure and wholesome as the smurfs. But I found the preachy tone tiresome and it almost overwhelmed the little plot there was. I was betting with myself which human was going to get shot and then saved by the Maji sorry, I meant Navi. The finish was a set up for Avatar 2 and I could see a franchise similar to Terminator developing. God help us all.

Top Hat Tommy 02/10/2010

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How can you not see the $350 Million Dollar gorilla in the screening room. Mr. Cameron apparently spent 99.9% of that budget NOT on paying some new writers. I say "new" because there isn't one word of dialogue that you haven't heard in some of the great westerns of all time. Usually it's the "Railroad" taking the Indian lands sometimes it's the "Cattlemen"stopping the farmers from settling on what's supposed to be "open range" territory. Other than that go see the amazing CGI work and relax with the idea that you're going to watch a "really really" great cartoon...for two hours and forty minutes.

Great! We loved it!

I luved it!

What fun!

Stunning! What a technical accomplishment! Could be best picture. It's that good. Eye popping entertainment made (at great expensive) by the best around.

Understand that this story is a twice told tale but they still manage to surprise you with some of the plot turns.

Yes this is worth seeing. But don't cheat yourself. See it at a first rate theater with a big screen if possible.

A distant planet inhabited by an exotic people are sitting on an enormously expensive mineral. Of course the big, presumably American company wants it. They send in a small team to infiltrate. They appear to be the same as the aliens but of course they are not. And of course boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back is at it's core. 

Interesting when you think of the parallel that jumps to mind with oil in Arabia or gold on an Indian reservation. Hey who are the good guys anyway? Tough to see our species get kick around so much. Needless to say this will not be Rush Limbaughs favorite film. Political correctness abounds and the human race are pretty much a group of stinkers.

Oh and if they left out one Marine or Army cliché dialog I can't guess what that is. Now get down and give me twenty, ladies!

Anyway the real story is the movie and it's maker, JAMES CAMERON. Mister C insisted the firm run 2 hours and over 45 minutes (we timed it). So get the big popcorn. And the score is vaguely reminisant of another Cameron hit "TITANIC." None the less .... SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Really fun. A joyride of a film. Not the greatest acting ever but extremely well cast with humor and purpose and enough ups and down and goings wrong to make the whole thing excruciatingly interesting to watch.

I  truly enjoyed this film.  The action fights and chase scenes were great.  I loved how they used hand held camera's.  It really made the film more exciting to watch.  It was fun tracking the world from Turin to Tangiers to Waterloo Station in London.  I was on the edge of my seat most of the film.  The audience was packed and they continually cheered on Jason Bourne (Matt Damon). 

I was happy they didn't make this movie into a sappy love story.  Bourne Ultimatum is a clever, athletic, scary and exhilarating  film.  Jason Bourne is our American Version of James Bond.

Convoluted. Attractive people but the plot is just too much going on and you can easily get lost along the way.

Great family story. Forgetaboutit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like the first one better. It was good.

Oh please. Klang, klang, klang. The character guys were okay.

This is really dated even for a period piece. Special effects seem disjointed and over the top. I have heard they added the 3 D stuff after the film was made and it looks cheesy compared to "AVATAR." 

A remake of the HARRY (the ham) HAMLIN film of the early 80's has the gods once again fighting the civilians as the old order of Mount Olympus goes down with a loud bang even though they appear to hold all the cards.

I have long been a fan of the great stop action film-maker RAY HARRYHOUSEN and his films "JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS" and "THE 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD" but sadly his influence is wasted here.

I have to admit that at the screening I attended the computer mucked up and kept freezing the action making the entire evening much longer and more painful then it should have been. But even still the darkness of the piece was just underwhelming. Why so many darkened scenes anyway? This is Greece. Where's the sun? 

Still our buzz cut hero, Perseus, played by the forever sullen SAM WORTHINGTON is just playing out the day. Always swinging his sword and crashing and clashing about that we missed any of the characters humanity.  LIAM  NEESON, POLLY WALKER (all too briefly) and RALPH FIENNES do their level best to play up the godly and queenly parts but it all comes across a bit HARRY POTTER-ISH.

This is just so damn confusing character-wise that the great journey loses any of it's contrived significants. People are introduced so quickly and then scenes start and end without purpose that the whole feeling of the movie is disjointed.

I wanted to love this film but I was bored silly by it.  

Soooo good. Great story well acted. Beautifully done.

It's one of the best!

Yes it's great to look at and so what?

The problem I had with this movie is trying to decide what it's about.

I know the plot. A man ages backwards. So? What does he learn from the experience? What does he feel about it? Is he happy? Is he mad? What insight has he gained or lost? Dunno. BRAD PITT plays him in neutral. Even when he finally meets his real father who gave him away for looking so wrinkled as a baby he has nothing to say to the guy. Kick his butt, dude!

Remember the epic poem “HIAWATHA”?

Remember how Hiawatha paddles to her village and she paddles to his and they miss each other because there is an island in the stream and they paddling on opposite sides of the island. Each going to a certain death when they reach each other ones village. I think that was “Hiawatha.” Anyway the point is that was touching and very much like life itself because you felt the tragedy of lovers passing in different directions. This is a story of two lovers who get together on that island and have at it.

CATE BLANCHETT wishes she could dance line that. Who ever was the stunt butt in this movie was excellent. Cate is once again outstanding. She meets the old Benjamin when she is a little girl and then ages in his direction. They are a classic screen couple. She gives him intelligence and grace. He gives her youthfulness and sex appeal.

“Thus the youthful Hiawatha
Said within himself and pondered,

Much perplexed by various feelings,
Listless, longing, hoping, fearing,
Dreaming still of Minnehaha,
Of the lovely Laughing Water,
In the land of the Dacotahs.”

The same guy that wrote this wrote the screen play “FOREST GUMP.” It is more than a little bit Gumpy. Or Gumpified. Whistfully logic-less. Your tempted to ask “did you shoot it in reverse sequence?

But it is still an interesting and fascinating movie. The special effects are sensation and the lovers are well matched.

Still I left with a hollow feeling. Why is this story worth telling?

Everyone who has ever grown up different then the other kids knows the feeling of being an outcast. It is upsetting until you realize what a tremendous advantage it is. But we never see any of that.

But it is a good yarn well told and amazing to look at.

A list actors with a devilishly delivered script. What does happen when a 40 something man and woman get together only to have her 20 something son come between them?

JONAH HILL. JOHN C. REILLY and MARISA TOMEI deal with the problem. And I do mean deal with it as every aspect of just what people are feeling is delivered in dead pan earnestness.

Unpretentious and unpredictable the movie is cleaver in it's conceit and yet has so many hidden implications it makes you squirm for the poor guy who gets into something that he has no idea how to deal with.

Written and directed by the Duplass brothers, they have hit a cord that rings true. Co-dependency and the shear length of time a parent spends with a child. There is a universality that shines.

The many zooms and close ups tends to feel claustrophobic put that sometimes is tedious. But the actors always come through. 

Great stuff. Really well done.

Not for me. It was too complicated.

Why would this guy care about Earth? It is dumb and gets no better.

Not to see!

Ah...leave it to the French to be a downer in treating an upper. Old bitter geezer gets turned around by needy kids...Dickens anyone? Skip this until it's on HBO and save your movie bucks. The animation is nothing new or more interesting than anything to date and the story is older than Walt even if he were still alive. Ebeneezer can relax...nobody here is a serious threat.

I guess I could moan and groan about the nature of this movie being old school mush and regurgitated plot lines but in all fairness my 11 year old enjoyed it and I thought it was okay.

Beautifully shot, combines tenderness, seduction, restraint and mystery to make for an enchanting if unfulled movie.

Long slow shots that build and often little use of dialogue.

You may have heard the plot before “There are three people in this relationship.” KIRERA KNIGHTLY negotiates her way through being the party on the out in a bad marriage that leads her into a desperately wrong affair. Of course we are immediately put to mind of Princess Diana. Yet different.

Good love story told discreetly with tons of passion. Not entirety satisfactory but it keeps it's promise to correctly portray it's century.

Restrained performance from Kiera Knightly gives us some real insight into the times a troubles.

Pulls you in and keeps you going .... good movie

Excellent documentary about the underground world of tagging and graffiti. But who made it? No one knows.

Ballsy and brilliant this one took everyone at Sundance by storm.

Watching the work of an underground artist over an eight year period it show the highlights(?) of a career that must forever remain in the shadows.

Quirky and unassuming, the movie remains involving even if masked for obvious reasons. I am no fan of graffiti but this is a well made film worth seeing.

But who made it? No one seems to take the credit of the blame.

Please stop making these movies!

What the hell is this mishmash? Conquistadors in space? This is a serious movie concerning death and life and oh my god what in the world did I just watch?

And how can you make a good conquistador movie without GILBERT ROLAND?

This travesty is in three parts. Three separate stories starring the same two actors, HUGH JACKMAN and RACHEL WIEST. Number one (although it's all number one) concerns a scientist seeking to cure brain cancer who coincidentally has a wife dieing of the same. So much for scientific objectivity. The answer of course is: just add bark from a tree! The tree ... you guessed it ... from the fountain of youth! It's somewhere in South America, you just take a left at Jonesville. Anyway this part is contrived, preposterous and unfortunately the best part of the movie.

Then we have the conquistador part. The queen is in trouble so she sends her favorite warrior/explorer to South America to find ... the fountain of youth! No wonder Spain had such a limited foreign policy in the 1600's. That part at least is colorful but weird. It contains an image I am still trying to get out of my head. Hugh sucks the sap from the tree as out it spews in all it's creamy whiteness. But when they cut to a close-up of Hugh, there is nothing around his mouth. That's because the audience would have laughed hysterically to see what would have appeared to be a face full of come! Anyway he then spews forth with a mouth full of flowers and ... well you get the picture.

The third part is the scene that got left on the cutting room floor from "2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY." It's Hugh dressed in white, his head shaved, floating in a bubble. Need I go on? Usually I don't reveal the story line in a review but I'm sparing you seeing this. It's science fiction dribble without the ray guns. I love Rachel and Hugh's okay but perhaps this one was better left as a tree that remained unplanted.

The kids thought it was great.

Really silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My lord there are so many movies in this movie. I saw a little “HARRY POTTER” and a dash of “LORD OF THE RINGS”, adding a slice of “NARNIA”, along with a huge helping of “STAR WARS”, topped off by “THE WIZARD OF OZ.”

Had heart and made you think!