The Last Airbender

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The Last Airbender

PG

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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Marie A

GARBAGE WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW DEPLORABLEVTHIS MOVIE IS AN INSULT TO MANKIND

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/11/25

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Ethan F

I found this movie to be a disrespect to basic human intelligence as it pretty much explains the story in detail like a kindergarten teacher on their first day teaching. But the effects were decent…at its best.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/07/25

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Alexander S

Lmao. Didn’t bother finishing. The plot was a mess, it was laughable and poorly made, the acting was more meme-worthy than convincing and the continuity errors were everywhere. Even as someone unfamiliar with The Last Airbender series, I was still able to spot glaring continuity errors. The visuals were nice, I’ll give it that. Grading: D-

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

10/20/25

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Michari N.

Although the soundtrack of the film is good, it has horrible direction, performances and dialogue that makes this one of the worst films ever made.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/25/25

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Mark B

I'd rather watch a horror movie than this. (I hate scary stuff)

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/17/25

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Isha H

The Last Airbender? With how horrible this movie is, you can say it is a horror movie with the terrifying plot. This isn't supposed to be one, by the way. THIS MOVIE IS SO AWESOME!!!! (Have you ever heard of sarcasm) Nothing is good in this movie at all. I won't spoil the story, but I will spoil how bad it is. I wish I could rate this 0 stars

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/14/25

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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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