It is flimsy because it requires no effort (in the storytelling department) whatsoever. We've seen this story told time and time again (Dances With Wolves anyone?). Just because it's a retelling of something that has happened before doesn't make it good. It's shortcomings in a stale and predictable story would have been helped by interesting characters, which unfortunately were nowhere to be found.
Oh, and Sam Worthington is the most bland and boring actor since Vin Diesel. How he continues to get all these leading roles is quite the enigma.
This is all of course my very humble opinion. :wave:
You can say that again. While it may be a visually stunning piece of work, it's a very formulaic movie:
The protaganist is a "jock-type" who isn't "smart" and is forced to work with scientists, who are annoyed to have to work with him. And the scientists are at odds with the industrial complex whose goals are to move the "natives." Yeah, that's original.
The protaganist puts himself in danger by way of his own arogance and manages to meet a native who, for reasons passing understanding, saves him from death. He forces himself into conversation with her. Seen it all before.
One or two of the natives seem willing to accept him into their lives, though for some ridiculous reason not the scientists, while the remaining native population despise and distrust him. The leader of the human industrial complex asks our protaganist to serve as a spy and work for him to get the natives out of the way. Typical. We've seen it before.
The protaganist proves himself to the natives, winning the heart of one, but still distrusted by a few. Almost in every movie ever made.
The natives discover his motives and shun him. He wins them back by doing something thought to be "crazy" (which is set up earlier and is seen by anyone with comprehension skills then). And then he fights with them. Yup, seen that before too.
The plot is so unoriginal Hollywood should be glad there aren't any copyright laws on basic plot! That all said, I think it would be a great themed area for either Universal Studios or DAK. It could replace Camp Minnie-Mickey, the most useless area in all of Disney World.
