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.

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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Catherine M.

@RT62564181 Mar 31

Not only does it butcher the original material, but it’s hard to watch as well. The transitions are horrible, the story line doesn’t make any sense (unless you’ve seen the original show), and the script and acting is hard to watch as well (no hate to the actors, they did the best with what they were given). It’s a 2hr movie and it took me and my sibling 2 days to even be able to finish it.

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mark G

@Mark_Alan_G. Mar 30

Powerfully awful. Terribly acted, directed and written. This seems like one of those films where someone in the crew should have gone to the producers and told them, man this guy is making a huge piece of crap right now.

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Indigo O

@RT59761170 Mar 8

Not accurate to the source material at all, and also not a good interpretation of the show either. I think the actors did okay with what they were given, and the set designs were cool, but the dialogue and especially the portrayal of bending was AWFUL. What do you mean fire benders can't produce their own fire? Why does it take ten earth benders to move a small rock?? What strange choices...

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Dogcat T

@Dadogcat Feb 16

This is easily the worst movie I’ve ever seen, especially because it takes such incredible and profound source material and completely wastes it, in terms of quality and the very characters and plot itself.

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Nicholas K

@Skippyasyermuni Feb 11

Had to come back in 2026 to express my hate for this movie the absolute garbage it was still haunts me to this day. I haven't scene an M. Knight movie since not will I. The fact that he defended this piece of garbage just shows how arrogant he is and terrible he has become it taking any sort of criticism.

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מתן ק

@135787 Jan 30

Better Then The Original Avatar the last Airbender it's Masterpiece for Nickelodeon that Even Original Creators Took it as Inspiration for The Source Material for The Legend of Korra

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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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