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During pre-production it was in the news that Eric Roth the Academy Award winning writer who co-wrote the script was at Logger heads with Leonardo DiCaprio. Leo was supposed to play Tom White - the lead FBI Agent who solves the whole plot but is highly understated in the film. The script was re-written to accommodate him and he changed roles.

Tom Cruise, Leonardo Dicaprio, Will Smith, etc are great actors but have way too much creative control that sometimes it is not a good thing. Had Apple Inc hired lesser known actors which this film needed and a non-fussy director like Francis Lawrence this movie would be battling Oppenheimer at award ceremonies.

All they had to do was stick to the script which reads like a movie. It is in the last chapters of the novel that the audience know who the killers and their leader are. But in the film we get a hint who it is in the opening hour and a while later definitely know who is calling the shots which make the whole film way too long.

Marty is losing it that is why he can't get funding at traditional studios and has to get it from streaming companies.

A beautiful mind (2002)- John Nash Jobs (2013) - Steve Jobs Gifted hands (2009) - Ben Carson Sully (2016) - Chesley Sullenberger Aviator (2003) - Howard Hughes Downfall (2004) - Hitler Imitation game (2014) - Alan Turing The theory of everything (2014) - Stephen Hawking Ray (2004) - Ray Charles Lincoln (2012) - Abraham Lincoln Invincible (2006) - Vince Papale Devil wears Prada (2006) - Anna Wintour Ali (2001) - Muhammad Ali Selena (1997) - Selena Quintanilla Fighter (2010) - Micky Ward & Dicky Eklund Labamba (1987) - Ritchie Valens Malcom X (1992) - Malcom X Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) - Dorothy Dandridge Molly's game (2017) - Molly Bloom Goodfellas (1990) - Henry Hill

Above are autobiographical movies, year of release and the name of the person the movie is about.

Oppenheimer is one of hundreds of autobiographical movies. It is 3 hours long and in two parts - 1) The Physics of making a nuclear bomb 2) The politics

The casting is wrong. At least Oppenheimer could have been played by a "newbie" to make it completely believable. This is not to say Cilliian Murphy is not believable, he is and does a great job but we have seen him as a physco in Red eye and other different roles. Christopher Nolan does not need stars, he is the star.

James Cameron is an intelligent man. He says if he did not make it in Hollywood he would have gone to university and studied engineering. He has also said several times that Avatar released in 2009 was to showcase the technology and not about the plot. But it took me several years to figure out that Avatar is Pocahontas in space because it is well directed and a visual spectacle.

The sequel follows the same trajectory and it is underwhelming. I am not even convinced if it was necessary. Maybe that's why it took 13 years to be released because James himself might have not been sure about a sequel. The visuals are out of this world probably the best yet. I kept reminding myself that it is CGI and not real. James has set the benchmark once again. That's how good the visuals are. But the story is sub par. I was expecting a better story since five writers including James wrote this screenplay including the couple who wrote the recent Planet of the Apes films.

Despite the weak plot, I cannot give this movie a 6 as it means below average. I give it a 7 because James did a great job creating Pandora. The fauna and flora seemed like what animals and vegetation would look like on other planets. The spirituality of the Nav'i and their close links to their animals is something Mankind should learn from.