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Sukhdev Sandhu Daily Telegraph (UK) A quite breathtakingly inept hodge-podge of vapid spirituality, playground chopsocky and visual effects that take 3D to an entirely new level: Zero-D. Rated: 1/5 Jul 18, 2014 Full Review Jim Schembri The Age (Australia) 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. Rated: 1/5 Sep 16, 2010 Full Review David Sexton London Evening Standard How did Shyamalan get it so wrong? Rated: 1/5 Aug 19, 2010 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 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. Rated: 1/4 Aug 18, 2023 Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) Visually catastrophic. [Full review in Spanish] Oct 19, 2022 Full Review Andrea Hubert NME (New Musical Express) Time was, the endings of M.Night Shyamalan films were always the biggest mystery. Now, the only mystery remaining is how, in a recession, he continues to get studios to fund his films. Rated: 2/5 May 19, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

Oaklee D This is bad even by Shyamalan standards. White washed cast with bad acting, dialogue with too much exposition and one note delivery. Turned it off after watching the first 15 minutes. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/15/24 Full Review Michael V This is probably the GOAT for worst film adaptations of all time. I absolutely loved the original cartoon and this was so bad I turned it off halfway through. The rampant whitewashing of indigenous and Asian characters recast with white actors was abhorrent. The acting was dull. The story made no sense. The effects looked bad. I honestly can't imagine a worse adaptation than this. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/12/24 Full Review Audience Member The Last Airbender squanders its source material through an incredibly poor and lazy retelling of events from the animated show. The acting is bland and lifeless and the story incomplete. Shyamalan managed to take one of the greatest cartoons in existence and flip it into one of the worst films in existence. The Last Airbender is a huge slap in the face to the original cartoon and all of those who dedicated their time to making it. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/24 Full Review Alan g Snobs compare it to the animated series but it is good as a stand alone movie. Faithful to the theme and tone of the Nick series. Visually stunning. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/28/24 Full Review Korra N Simply one of the worst films ever made, and an abysmal adaptation that's both disgraceful and tone deaf to the anime masterpiece. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/25/24 Full Review Jack C can't like this even as a joke :( Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/31/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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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

Nickelodeon Movies, Blinding Edge Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 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