A movie worth watching for its visual and conceptual aspects. Unfortunately, it lacks in story, which pretty much writes itself from the synopsis: Lone wolf player of virtual reality war game seeks to access dangerous level of game from which others have not returned.

Other writers might have taken this idea and found interesting approaches into the story. In this case the writer seems to have grabbed whatever came to mind first, which is “the obvious.”

And the problem with having a “lone wolf” as your main character… little dialogue and not much action, especially in the beginning. After she fed her dog and checked her mail (no messages) I thought, this is about as interesting as my miserly life. Maybe she could watch a more interesting movie and I could look over her shoulder.

Eventually the story builds a little steam. And I like the movie’s cinematic qualities. But most video games these days have more developed plots than Avalon.

Mini review at http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/520240.html .