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The Last Airbender

Play trailer 1:31 Poster for The Last Airbender PG Released Jul 1, 2010 1h 43m Fantasy Adventure Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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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 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 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 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 Read all reviews

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Audience Member Honestly the worst movie I’ve ever seen. This movie honestly is a disgrace to the avatar franchise they mispronounce many names and things they call aang ong and sokka is now sowka and if you like the avatar fear not because the ovitar is here it seems like M. Night Shaymalan read the Wikipedia of avatar and based this movie of of it. There is just lore dump after lore dump. Kitara literally just serves a purpose of spilling out plot synopsis throughout the entire movie. For some reason also they decided to change how fire benders work they decided to make them need a flame source to use their abilities which in the show they just use their inner chi so it makes the fire nation very less intimidating because all they really have to do is put out flames to stop them. Also the acting is very flat the only actor I can give kudos to is the actor of zuko he is the only one who gives at least a tiddlywink of effort in his role. Also the actor of sowka sounds like he’s on the brink of crying in every line he says with also does not sound like sokka because he is a witty character in the show this sokka sound so serious for actually no reason and the worst sin This movie commits is being actually so bad at the end of the movie the earth benders literally do a whole synchronized performance to move one pebble and in one scene the water tribe they visit when being attacked they line up and the man screams and they just like jiggle their weapons around like their all having brain aneurisms But yeah this movie his poorly directed and just awful casting and it’s just so disappointing that this was the movie we got to such a phenomenal show Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/01/25 Full Review Adrian C MasterPiece of cinema Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/03/25 Full Review Filippos S I was never a fan of anime but I knew it was good. Well this movie sucks. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/23/25 Full Review Jonathan H Horrible live action version, stick with the animated series. Oh and Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan sucks. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/15/25 Full Review Clark O it's crap Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/10/25 Full Review Ethan D Even if you haven't seen a single episode of the show, you will still be disappointed by this film. The visual effects were just absolute CGI overkill, the performances of everyone in the cast were unforgivably bad - don't even get me started on the obvious whitewashing - and you know you're watching a poorly-made action-adventure when even the action sequences fail to excite. M. Night Shyamalan made some great films, like "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs", but he also made a lot of duds, like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening". This film is firmly in the latter category, and it's easily his worst effort to date. Thank goodness the two planned sequels were cancelled. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/09/25 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
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