The Last Airbender

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The Last Airbender

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2010

1h 43m

Fantasy

Adventure

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The four nations of Air, Water, Earth and Fire lived in harmony until the Fire Nation declared war. A century later, there is still no end in sight to the destruction, then, an Avatar named Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers that he has the power to control the four elements. He joins forces with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka, to restore balance and harmony to their world.

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Critics Consensus

The Last Airbender squanders its popular source material with incomprehensible plotting, horrible acting, and detached joyless direction.

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Sukhdev Sandhu

Daily Telegraph (UK)

07/18/2014

1/5

A quite breathtakingly inept hodge-podge of vapid spirituality, playground chopsocky and visual effects that take 3D to an entirely new level: Zero-D.

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Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

09/16/2010

1/5

This empty, misfired epic from M. Night Shyamalan is boring and strengthens the claim that he is the worst director working in mainstream cinema today.

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David Sexton

London Evening Standard

08/19/2010

1/5

How did Shyamalan get it so wrong?

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Jul 20

1/5

The action scenes, even with the somewhat dazzling effects, are badly staged and feel like that they have no purpose.

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Joseph Tomastik

Loud and Clear Reviews

11/20/2024

The Last Airbender is a bad film ... But I don’t think this is an absolutely terrible catastrophe of a film or even a disrespectful adaptation.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

08/18/2023

1/4

The Last Airbender plays like it should be the work of a low-grade hack with little-to-no experience behind the camera, but instead, it’s by a director who not so long ago was praised as one of today’s finest new storytellers.

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Enrique R

@EnriqueRamosLovesMovies Jan 19

The Last Airbender, one of the worst blockbusters of the 2010s and a mess. M. Night Shyamalan is a great director cause the man made The Sixth Sense and Signs and other great films, but this didn’t work. The CGI is trash. This movie is a stinker. Overall, I give this film a 1.2/10 or 1.2/5 stars.

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DanTheMan 2

Jan 12

I guess we know which Avatar was the one without any cultural impact.

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Donavin D

@Hiyromedia Jan 9

Not too often that I have very little to say about something but this film left less of an impact than most. I was bored from start to finish with this film that meant to adapt a franchise I really enjoy and has a special place in my heart. The closet thing I can compare it to, though it isn’t quite as bad, is Dragon Ball evolution, for bringing the same level of effort and care for the source material. There isn’t a scene, a moment, a set piece or an aspect of the original show that shines as something special or worth while. The element bending is lazy and unspectacular. The story, which meant to mimic the structure of the shows seasons, felt incredibly incomplete and dispassionate. A film that took me several tries to finishing watching as almost every attempt to do so ended in an eye roll. Skip this one and watch the animated show and change your life for the better.

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Julian M

@julian231 Jan 2

Una reinterpretación audaz que simplifica emociones para que el espectador pueda concentrarse en los efectos digitales… aunque no siempre funcionen. Su tono solemne y efectos rígidos crean una experiencia casi meditativa. Cine espiritual, pero raro.

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Noah H

@Noah85 Dec 31

Just watched it and yup, it's pretty bad. My biggest complaint was that there was no chemistry between Sokka and Pincess Yue in this version. The Netflix Live-action series and the original cartoon did it SOOOO much better. It had good set designs and action choreography but I'm sorry, M. Night Shyamalan. In order to make a good adaptation you have to know the source material.

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Henry E

@BigDiggleJim Dec 11

"I am Oong." NO YOUR F****** NOT YOU STUPID KID!!!!!!!!! YOUR NAME IS Aang!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE WORST ADAPTATION OF ANY MOVIE/SHOW EVER MADE!!! I WOULD HAVE GAVE IT -99999999 STARS BUT CANT BECAUSE ITS NOT AN OPTION!!! I HATE THIS STUPID MOVIE! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Synopsis

The four nations of Air, Water, Earth and Fire lived in harmony until the Fire Nation declared war. A century later, there is still no end in sight to the destruction, then, an Avatar named Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers that he has the power to control the four elements. He joins forces with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka, to restore balance and harmony to their world.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mercer, Frank Marshall
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Blinding Edge Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Kennedy/Marshall, Industrial Light & Magic
Rating: PG (Fantasy Action Violence)
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 1, 2010, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 9, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $131.6M
Runtime: 1h 43m

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