Avatar (2009 film) the Rings" (literature). It was a tougher sell ..." The film received mostly positive reviews. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 83% based on 301 reviews, with a rating average of 7.5/10. The site's consensus reads "It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but "Avatar" reaffirms James Cameron's singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking." On Metacritic — which assigns a weighted mean score — the film has a score of 83 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening
Avatar (2009 film) was going to happen next?". For French filmmaker Luc Besson, "Avatar" opened the doors for him to now create an adaptation of the graphic novel series "Valérian and Laureline" that technologically supports the scope of its source material, with Besson even throwing his original script in the trash and redoing it after seeing the film. "TIME" ranked "Avatar" number 3 in their list of "The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far)" also earning it a spot on the magazine's All-TIME 100 list, and IGN listed "Avatar" as number 22 on their list of the top 25 Sci-Fi movies