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Rating: 7.5

Visually stunning and definitely worth seeing. The story and most of the characters are, ironically, pretty two-dimensional. But even so, the female characters kick some butt. I recognize that James Cameron has to generate eleventy bazillion dollars so it has to be kinda vanilla to appeal to everybody (that closing credits song? REALLY horrible. Will certainly win the best song Oscar - it's that bad.) So it has a weirdly simultaneous pro/anti war message going on, which I guess we are so used to, it didn't hit me right away. But at least the red states will get force fed a little environmentalism, which is good in my book.