I love sci-fi. I was hyped about seeing this movie, and I think it has to be reviewed on two fronts: technical/effects, and then the plot of the movie itself.

Technically speaking, this movie is a leap forward in cinema. If you did not see it in 3D, you are kind of a retard, because the guy invented a new camera to film it in 3D. What I read back in the summer was that it was supposed to be more like seeing things on a stage, rather than a flat surface with thing occasionally popping out of it. I would agree that this was the case. It wasn't even the big on-screen effects, but little things like the computer screens and such that made it look better than anything else. The aliens looked rad as well, and the effects used to make them look like the actors really worked I thought.

As far as story goes, it was kind of stupid, and not really original. If you're going to make a sci-fi movie, it has to be different from anything else. Even the robots the people walked around in I though were exactly the same as the loaders from Aliens. And elements of the movie like "Pandora" and "Unobtanium" seemed really stupid to me.

What I do know is they better come out with a badass Blu-Ray release of this movie complete with 3D effects. This should be possible because while new technology was used filming the movie, theaters didn't need new hardware as far as I know to project the thing.