Cameron’s long-awaited return to science fiction is as grand in scope, ambitious in production, and technologically advanced as we would expect. It is a Cameron film through and through, with its marriage of sophisticated, high-end special effects and a deep vein of humanism that is generally best expressed through unapologetic romanticism. The film also marks a return to several of the ideological issues that provided a political framework for Cameron’s previous sci-fi juggernauts, including the triangular struggle for power between capitalism, the military, and science, the conflict between the organic and the technological, and the seemingly limitless capacity for human egotism and violence. (Cinemark Hollywood 16, Amarillo, TX)