The Last Airbender

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The Last Airbender

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Released Jul 1, 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)

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

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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

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David Sexton

London Evening Standard

How did Shyamalan get it so wrong?

Rated: 1/5

Aug 19, 2010

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

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

Rated: 1/5

Jul 20, 2025

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Joseph Tomastik

Loud and Clear Reviews

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.

Nov 20, 2024

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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

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evilmia e

when I first saw the movie it was in 3-d and I loved at as a child.....but as an adult I was wrong about about this movie. I hated it because of the acting, everyone wasn't the same like they were in the cartoon tv series. sokka was serious and not his funny and goofy self, katara was something else. it's like she wasn't even a leader at all....in the movie she was a totally different person. appa was a cgi nightmare. THE FIRE LORD IS ALWAYS HERE EVEN FAULT HE wasn't supposed to be there. Zuko looked like the season two version of himself.....but not in a good way. Aang was not acting like the avatar they didn't even spell his name right. and Azula......showed up at the end of the movie because they cared about making a squeal....so my childhood is now ruined because of this horrifying bootleg movie......im sorry

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/18/25

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Austin R

This was by far the most DISAPPOINTING Movie i ever watched! as i really like the Anime shows. this live action SUCKS!!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/18/25

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Thomas H

I don't like to be negative, but this movie squandered the best TV show ever made. No wonder the fanbase acts like it doesn't exist.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/21/25

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Ryland C

The greatest funny bad movie of all time! 🤣

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/05/25

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Stephen C

A failure in 1 hour and 43 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $131,600,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/09/25

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Tyler G

Has Shyamalan ever watched Avatar the animated series? How did this movie cost what it did? To take one of the greatest source materials of all time and make this is criminal.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/18/25

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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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