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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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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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Visually catastrophic. [Full review in Spanish]

Oct 19, 2022

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C0RV T

This is so interesting.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/16/24

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Leo

This movie doesn’t exist

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/15/24

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Melinda d

ABSOLUTE TRASH ! NO ONE CAN EVER SAY THIS MOVIE WAS GOOD

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/07/24

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Nick R

I disastrous adaptation of the original classic that was already perfect. Any attempt to try and justify this movie's existence is futile due to horrible acting, a terrible plot adaptation, poor and murky special effects, and direction that completely took away any sense of joy and fun from the source material. It's an awful movie to begin with, but a massive insult to the fans.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/25/24

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Audience Member

By far the worst disappointment my generation had ever seen put to film. (And that says a lot.) The original show was and is a master class in storytelling. This movie however makes every mistake there is; clunky dialogue, terrible acting and bad/non-existent choreography make for a movie that is unenjoyable even to a casual movie goer who does not know the source material.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/21/24

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J J

A very, very underrated movie. Apparently fans got mad because it wasn't faithful to the original story but that doesn't mean it's a bad movie. It's a great shame that the sequel was never made as the cast was very good and the end had me excited for it.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/09/24

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M. Night Shyamalan

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Aang

Dev Patel

Prince Zuko

Nicola Peltz Beckham

Katara

Jackson Rathbone

Sokka

Shaun Toub

Uncle Iroh

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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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