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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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

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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

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Clark O

it's crap

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/10/25

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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

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thiago s

Filme fraco, o roteiro é ruim, o filme tem cenas de muito fracas com personagens fracos, mas isso não melhora o filme, a história sobre o avatar e seus amigos é fraca, o elenco é muito fraco, e também não ajudam em porra nenhuma o filme, um dos piores filmes do m. night shyamalan, e de 2010.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/05/25

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Julia G

Worst Shyamalan movie of all times! I showed it to my boyfriend after all this time and he told me that I was not exaggerating with my review. If -10 stars would be possible, I would give them. The only good things about it were costumes and some landscapes. How is it possible, that the actors were that emotionless? They themselves had no fun making this movie and one can see it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/25

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - The Avatar State

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - Aang vs. Master Pakku

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - The Avatar Escapes

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - Uncle Iroh vs. Commander Zhao

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - The Koi Spirits

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - Zuko vs. Katara

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - Aang vs. Zuko

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - Princess Yue's Sacrifice

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - The Blue Spirit Fight

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The Last Airbender: Official Clip - Earthbenders Revolt!

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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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