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2010
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The Last Airbender
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12
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1.5
Advertisement So what does that leave A lot of headache inducing CGI effects sequences, many scenes of children doing tai chi, and some imperiled magi ..
Av Club
2.0
So what does that leave A lot of headache inducing CGI effects sequences, many scenes of children doing tai chi, and some imperiled magical fish.
Av Club
2.0
Your eyes are sometimes dazzled, but youre shut out of the spectacle because theres no one of any force or charm or stature to identify with.
EW
0.6
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.
Rogerebert
2.0
The stilted dialogue is definitely to blame; it doesnt do any of the actors any favors.
Common Sense Media
1.5
This is all enormously disappointing, of course, since the best we could hope for from a live action Avatar adaptation is the mind blowing equivalent ..
Variety
1.5
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We Got This Covered
1.0
Either way, if your actual or mental age exceeds this, steer well clear.
Time Out
0.6
M. Night Shyamalan throws his hands up and sells out with The Last Airbender, an adaptation of the Nickelodeon anim series that boasts almost no sign ..
0.5
Its a joyless experience bereft of exhilaration, excitement, and fun.
Collider
1.5
The long winded explanations and clumsy performances are made worse by graceless effects and a last minute 3 D conversion that wrecks whatever visual ..
The New York Times
1.0
I can accurately and completely review The Last Airbender by quoting my ten year old daughters own thoughts on the movie: They messed up everything.
E Film Critic
1.0
It is so bad that not only could Uwe Boll make a better movie than Shyamalan has done here, he already has.
E Film Critic
1.0
A quite breathtakingly inept hodge podge of vapid spirituality, playground chopsocky and visual effects that take 3D to an entirely new level: Zero D.
Telegraph
1.5
Naturally, the fire nation doesnt take this news sitting down and, soon enough, two separate forces try to capture Aang.
0.0
And dont forget those earthbenders, who can throw rocks just by thinking about it.
San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
Far from the catastrophe the US bewailed, but still disappointingly clunky.
3.5
This isnt an easy movie to praise.seems as though its daring people to hate it.
Cinema Blend
1.0
If you thought it was bad when writer director M. Night Shyamalan was channeling Rod Serling, wait till you see him try to be George Lucas.
Ny Daily News
0.5
Everything about this film is so mind bogglingly stupid, I barely know where to begin!
JoBlo
2.5
The puzzle of Shyamalans racial casting soon becomes secondary to a much more pressing concern trying to follow the cluttered story.
The Globe And Mail
3.0
The movies redeeming feature might be its beauty, but you have to take off your 3 D glasses to fully appreciate it. The lenses blunt and mute the uniq ..
Philly
2.5
Shyamalan compresses a ton of plot exposition in every line and the resulting heavyosity is too much for the younger actors to carry.
Philly
2.0
The uninitiated will find the picture an odd, strangely chilly and frequently confounding experience. They wont care that this first Airbender will li ..
One Guys Opinion
0.5
This is one muddled attempt at franchise making: confusing, drab, sluggish. (Ugly, too, if youre forced to see it in 3 D.)
Village Voice
2.0
Its a stinker that takes itself so seriously, but might bring about unintentional laughter to those who can view this rubbish as merely a goof.
Sover
1.3
The film is a compilation of bad fantasy clichs that are inelegantly stitched together.
ReelViews
1.9
So essentially we get yet another war movie disguised as a fantasy movie, with one dimensional bad guys, one dimensional good guys, artificially impos ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
0.5
The current national priorities should be as follows: reduce carbon emissions and stop funding the films of M. Night Shyamalan.
Chicago Reader
3.1
Yeah, its kid stuff, and parents arent going to be enjoying any Pixar style dual themes.
Usa Today
2.5
And it doesnt help, either, that the film is topped off with a fairly generic battle between Kitai and a laughably unconvincing CGI monster.)
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
It is no surprise to me it is doing a better business at the box office than most experts anticipated.
Lariat
2.0
But theres one dude who can bend all four elements, if you can imagine such a thing, and hes known as the Avatar.
Eric Ds Nider
0.5
They just overstate everything, and it doesnt look like their voices match their bodies.
News Review
2.0
Writer/director M Night Shyamalans once glorious reputation is tarnished further by this tediously juvenile fantasy adventure.
Radio Times
0.5
And thats just more of the same old, same old busy mayhem without a care in the world about the outcome.
Screen It
0.5
breathtakingly clueless, misconceived, stupid, humourless, unexciting, dim, dumb farrago, the worst film Ive seen in years.
Independent
2.0
The dialogue is tin eared in the extreme, the 3D is used in a strictly tokenistic fashion and the absolute lack of a sense of irony or humour makes th ..
Independent
2.0
A dodgy script, ropey performances, atrocious 3D effects and a tendency to take itself too seriously...
View London
0.0
Often, Shyamalan doesnt even bother with filmmaking but instead resorts to big mouthfuls of explanatory dialogue.
News Day
2.5
The Last Airbender is like a Care Bears movie that got waylaid in the fourth dimension. Its insufferably silly.
Cs Monitor
0.0
Stilted dialogue, wooden acting, glacial pacing, cheesy special effects, tacky looking sets, ugly costumes, poorly staged and edited action sequences, ..
New York Post
0.5
Undistinguished on every level, the film rehashes genre clichs in a style that is both painless and instantly forgettable.
Film Journal International ..
1.9
Theres no other way to say this: M. Night Shyamalan has completely lost it.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.5
While the special effects are impressive enough, M. Night Shyamalans film doesnt make a lick of sense.
Az Central
1.3
Like Compass, Airbender ends with a cliffhanger, but dont hold your breath waiting for Chapter Two.
Boston
1.5
These characters dont live in their world perhaps because their world isnt in the least bit real.
1.9
Even 3 D technology cant inject a much needed extra dimension to The Last Airbender.
Toronto Star
1.0
After the first five seconds, it seems as if you have been watching it for around two and a half hours, and that this time has passed in four and a ha ..
Guardian
1.5
Unfortunately, thats not something fascinating for me to think about. (
Reel Talk Reviews
1.0
Against the odds, this feeble minded premise has already inspired a popular, Asian style animated series on the Nickelodeon channel.
Daily Mail
4.5
With that change, The Last Airbender would have been a tighter and better written fantasy epic that isnt so reliant on the memories of its collective ..
Cinema Crazed
1.5
The Last Airbender feels like hackwork gorgeous and elaborate hackwork, at times and as crazy as some of Shyamalans movies have been (well, OK, all of ..
Salon
1.5
Shyamalan has written a muddled, confusing script and directed it badly
1.5
There are long expository speeches, which the young, inexperienced actors recite by rote, and the entire concept is filled with incoherent inconsisten ..
Susang Ranger
1.0
This is a kids movie that doesnt seem to realize that its a kids movie.
Movies
1.5
The good news for those eagerly anticipating this live action, big budget adaptation is that the 3D isnt horrible. The bad news Just about everything ..
Movies
1.5
Please, Hollywood, if theres to be another Airbender movie, hand the job to some efficient hack, and not to a once mesmerizing artist whos lost his wa ..
Time
3.0
The film, which is a live action adaptation of a Nickelodeon Asian anime influenced cartoon series, is supposed to be the start of a new movie franchi ..
Boston Herald
2.0
Though it makes sense to cast someone familiar with martial arts in the lead role, Noah Ringer simply doesnt have the charisma or the talent to carry ..
Bullz-Eye
1.5
The battles are only slightly more exciting than the exposition, the acting is laughable, and the characters are flat.
Las Vegas Weekly
1.0
Some of the worst acting, action and dialogue youll endure this year.
Total Film
1.5
But I think its fair to say that none of those movies boasted quite the array of leaden performances, overscripted dialogue, narrative inertia, and un ..
The Atlantic
1.0
The latest casualty of this misguided ambition is The Last Airbender based on the hit Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Hollywood
2.0
Battlefield Earth has a new rival for the title of worst film of the last 20 years.
Coles Mithey
2.5
The problem is that Shyamalans brushstrokes are too brief, written in far too nondescript a shorthand, and what should ebb and flow as naturally as th ..
Movie Freak
1.5
The Last Airbender lays there, stillborn, potential squandered... a sad indicator of just how completely Shyamalan has thrown away his own gifts, the ..
Hit Fix
1.3
Everything feels like exposition, with characters talking about mystical stuff you wont care about unless youre already obsessed with Airbender minuti ..
Aisle Seat
1.0
Being a Shyamalan film, the entire cast (which also includes Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel as an exiled Fire Prince) recite their looney tunes li ..
Herald Sun
1.5
Sadly, it seems that Shyamalan is channeling George Lucas et al from The Phantom Menace... and said, Hey, lets do that with this movie!
7M Pictures
2.0
The problems begin with Shyamalans script, which is an orgy of exposition.
Boxoffice Magazine
2.0
And if the soporific dialogue and somnambulant pacing werent enough, theres the alleged 3 D, an effect mostly done after the fact, and seemingly only ..
E Online
0.5
With poorly executed action, wooden acting and a dead script, this fantasy film is a strong contender for a Razzie.
Film Ink
1.3
Theres no third act twist because we never get out of the first act.
Movies Tv Guide
1.0
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 ..
The Age
1.0
Most of the performers are so bland that you forget them while youre watching them.
Maki At The Movies
2.5
The Last Airbender is yet another part one of a series an expensive, monumental step toward starting a new franchise that may never see fruition.
2.0
MacGruber and Jonah Hex can relax. This is without doubt the summers movie nadir, the grossest waste of somebodys money to create (and people to view) ..
Tamp A Bay
1.5
The mythology of the series doesnt translate well to the demands of concise big screen storytelling.
Abc
1.0
A derivative and lifeless heroes journey tale layered up with Eastern mysticism.
Digital Spy
2.0
Why do the water tribe have so much difficulty defeating their fire opponents when the battle takes place on the ocean
Flicks
1.9
The movie has been criticized for racially inappropriate casting, but thats the least of its problems. The acting is laughable, the effects are phony, ..
Stl Today
1.5
Hollywood, please: STOP POURING YOUR MONEY INTO THAT M. NIGHT SHYAMALANSHAPED MONEY INCINERATOR.
The Stranger
2.0
Normal paint and brush animation. Normal Hollywood fairies, looking like Barbie and sounding like Valley High school graduates.
Ft
1.3
One has to sort of admire the wacky ambition and imagination involvedthe different otherworldly lands and sights, courtesy of location shooting in Gre ..
Dustin Put Man
1.5
Mediocrity and abuse of slow motion to show off the films costly digital effects are the keynote of a movie with no interest... except for the music.
1.5
An exotic 3D battle of the boys blockbuster, teeming with dazzling, exotic imagery. Though a bit on the wet side as drenched seafaring adversaries and ..
News Blaze
1.5
The prospect of sequels to this lumpish and leaden action adventure is nothing to cheer about.
Hollywood And Fine
2.0
The first part of a planned trilogy, Shyamalan says the sequel will be darker. Just better would be a start.
The Sun
1.0
Its as though Shyamalan wants to be sure that the audience doesnt miss anything by going too fast.
Killer Movie Reviews
1.0
If sleep is a hard thing to come by, then a dose of M. Night Shyamalans The Last Airbender is just the cure for you.
Matts Movie Reviews
2.0
To Shyamalans credit, the picture isnt confusing to newcomers (though some of the spirit world dragon material is a bit sketchy), just disturbingly du ..
Brian Or Ndorf
0.5
The story isnt the bad part of The Last Airbender in fact, its the best part... The bad part is almost everything else.
Antagony & Ecstasy
0.6
This could be simply because hes already so used to Jon Stewarts nightly faux drama that hes able to tap into the films histrionic dramatics with at l ..
0.5
Shyamalan is your trickster guide on a journey into nothingness, from which only your soul dead shadow will ever return.
Io9 Gizmodo
0.1
A boring, nauseating blockbuster filled with poor editing, painfully wooden acting, unrelenting dullness, and unimpressive special effects. Its so bad ..
Nyc Movie Guru
2.5
And while strictly gender neutral, only a kid could truly appreciate this hodgepodge of a film.
Js Online
1.0
But, considering the only memorably enjoyable moment in the movie is a 30 second action sequence, thats clearly not the case.
Shockya
4.4
Shyamalan has taken what could have been a big, flashy, generic Hollywood production and made it wholly his own.
Montreal Film Journal
1.0
A movie thats as thick as the earth, as enraging as fire, and about as watery and windy as a giant cinematic wet fart.
Sky
2.0
It is in writer/director Shyamalans dialogue that the film grinds to a halt. His words have grown increasingly pompous and stilted since his concise, ..
Sbs
2.0
As far as childrens entertainment goes (and it is childrens entertainment), it could be a lot worse.
Window To The Movies
1.5
A 2 D movie converted to 3 D, The Last Airbender often has a smudged and blurry look about it, as if theres some kind of schmutz on your clunky plasti ..
Mercury News
0.6
For a big Hollywood picture with first rate special effects, The Last Airbender is surprisingly amateurish.
Scene Stealers
1.5
The constant references to benders cant help but elicit sniggers from British audiences ... the plotting is stodgy, the dialogue stinks and the acting ..
What So
1.0
$150,000,000 well wasted. The Last Airbender is an insult to those wanting sophisticated, entertaining or even competent cinema.
Film 4
3.0
A ridiculously talkie excursion that takes itself way too seriously, resulting in a dull action film that completely sucks the life out of a potential ..
Bowling Green Daily News
1.0
Shyamalan comes unstuck, again, ith an insipid fantasy adventure that tumbles at every hurdle.
Scifi Now
1.5
The TV show boasted sparkling humor, well rounded characters, an epic storyline and unexpected depth.
Scifi Movie Page
1.3
Then Zhao explains why moon power isnt an issue, and yes, they do say moon power that often.
Scifi Movie Page
1.5
It seems as if a good film could be made out of The Last Airbenders tale. But this is not that film.
Streaming Quickflix
0.5
M. Night Shyamalans big screen live action version of the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series constitutes a form of Chinese water torture in which ..
Wsj
2.5
works so much better with stories that are slower in development, where the atmosphere and tone drive the film, and where youre never quite sure whats ..
2.0
Wheres the fun Were talking about characters that can throw fire and water. Wheres the excitement and sense of wonder
From The Balcony
1.9
Shyamalans storytelling strengths are all about quietude, indirect suspense and treating supernatural elements with everyday simplicity.
Articles Chicago Tribune
2.0
Its a nice movie to look at, as long as you ignore the characters, plot, and action.
Movie Metropolis
1.0
The picture is crammed with big budget CGI it seems determined to command our interest through sheer technological will.
M Tv
1.0
Despite a multi angled plot, theres a surprising lack of story to the film.
Fan The Fire Magazine
1.3
The addition of the 3 D is obviously an afterthought, and in most scenes its pretty bad. Almost as bad as the writing and the acting. Almost.
Tri City Herald
0.5
The acting is excruciating across the board, with a complete lack of subtlety and volume control.
Trespass Mag
0.6
If the 11th hour addition of 3 D to M. Night Shyamalans odious live action adaptation of Nickelodeons beloved anime influenced cartoon series doesnt m ..
Boston Phoenix
2.0
Second, he isnt a bender, so hes the perfect person for us to follow.
The Scorecard Review
2.0
Stiff, fuzzy looking, cloddish and disastrous in nearly every way, The Last Airbender looks as if it could have been made by the spoiled son of a stud ..
Detroit News
1.0
Airbenders final insult is the unmistakable stench of a sequel thats left to linger in its wake.
Little White Lies
2.0
Shyamalan has been working in cinema for more than a decade now, but none of his films are nearly as disastrous as this. Its his final plea to get his ..
Week In Rewind
0.5
A soul crushing disaster made worse by unnecessary, counterproductive 3 D, The Last Airbender fails to immediately qualify as the worst film of the su ..
Cinematical
1.0
All the while, Shyamalan creates an ever growing sense of Who cares where we are; when will this be over
MSN Movies
2.0
A listless, incompetent and boring misfire that insults the comprehension of even the smallest child in the audience.
The Diva Review
2.0
I am truly sorry to say that this movie is a big, dull, dud and a failure in almost every category.
Movie Mom
1.0
The worst part is undoubtedly the script, which clunks and groans all the way under the weight of its own exposition tragically and unforgivably, it f ..
Standard Net Au
1.5
Some of the performances are wooden, creating repeated moments of unintentional hilarity that cut through the dramatic tension.
Liver Pool Echo
1.9
The Last Airbender blatantly sets the stage for a sequel. Unfortunately, this awful films huge box office receipts may make a sequel reality.
2 The Advocate
1.9
The title has the ring of prophecy. Although the film frustrates viewers with a cliffhanger ending, its hard to believe a second Airbender will materi ..
Gomemphis
3.0
The Last Airbender is swollen with portentous mumbo jumbo and realized in the most simplistic and mundane ways imaginable.
Reel Times: Reflections on ..
1.0
What a colossal disappointment! Lets hope this truly is the last Airbender.
Brandon Fibbs
1.5
The movie is an unmitigated disaster, a putrid patchwork of the original, immensely popular animated series stitched together by jaw droppingly wretch ..
Blu Ray Ign
2.5
Can we please just stop with the 3D conversions Shymalan delivers visually amazing action sequences but the film suffers from terrible dialogue and ho ..
1.5
Tedious, overstuffed, visually flat ... emotionally inert, filled with painfully expository dialogue and mostly poorly acted, its simply an all around ..
New York Metro Mix
1.5
The conversion process truly needed here was not to add 3 D to the images, but to add depth to characters and a story that barely qualify as one dimen ..
1.3
Stick a fork in M. Night Shyamalan. Hes done as a director of consequence after The Last Airbender. Sad.
Washington Times
3.0
Neither epic enough to be memorable, nor disposable enough to be harmless...Think of Star Wars: Episode I without the nuance (!) and subtlety (!!).
Zaki's Corner
0.0
The Last Airbender could be The Last M. Night Shyamalan Movie. Yep, its that bad.
1.0
I swiftly became bored with a repetitive and laboured film devoid of drama, tension or real emotion.
2.0
There isnt a single convincing performance in the picture, and the badness of the acting is, bizarrely, pretty much in direct proportion to a characte ..
Events Austin 360
1.3
The time has come to admit that he got lucky with Sixth Sense and we overrated his talent.
Atlantic City Weekly
2.0
Time was, the endings of M.Night Shyamalan films were always the biggest mystery. Now, the only mystery remaining is how, in a recession, he continues ..
NME
2.0
slice of self important nonsense thats actually pretty funny, although probably not in the way Shyamalan planned.
Daily Mirror (UK)
0.8
Paraphrasing a quote from another Shyamalan star, Haley Joel Osment, it seems like theres dead actors walking around like regular actors. From The Six ..
1.9
Its difficult to ascertain whether this poorly executed picture will earn enough to warrant its planned sequels or not even make enough to allow Shyam ..
2.0
Call M. Night Shyamalan a Wood Bender this kiddie cast is as flat and stiff as particle board
Amy Weekly
2.0
Nothing here is helped by M. Night Shyamalans bizarre casting choices.
1.5
Shyamalan saps all the humor and energy from the fantasy adventure so that the Nickelodeon cartoon on which its based has more life than the live acti ..
2.0
The Last Airbender is a horrific mish mash of genres that follows a depressingly large number of dead ends in adapting its source material.
What Culture
3.8
Using the backbone of the Nickelodeon series, Shyamalan succeeds in developing a story with a deep mythology something he failed to do with Lady in th ..
Entertainment Sltrib
1.3
The trunk of my car is filled with busted 3D glasses and broken dreams of summer movie bliss. But thats not as bad as whats in the trunk of a Paramoun ..
1.5
Kiddie strength action scenes drag the film down, but the kiss of death is Shyamalans gratuitous use of earth tones and the general dull, drab look of ..
Las Vegas CityLife
1.0
Who would have thought Shyamalan would come up with a movie that makes his Lady in the Water look positively sensible
Trib Live
1.5
REVIEW: M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) is a remarkably frustrating director.
Wildsound Filmmaking Feedb ..
0.5
Slavishly amateurish with no heart. Cold, not engaging, and dull. Bad writing and film school level directing. What happened to an exciting story
1.0
The Last Airbender is not just a flop, its a big budget flop, and its a throwback to that grand old genre, the movie thats so bad that its bad.
1.9
In spite of all the running and sometimes flying to and fro, The Last Airbender never feels particularly urgent.
3.0
Fantasy works best off linear narrative clarity, while many scene transitions whirl like air in the hands of Aang. Yet, Night ignites the separate mom ..
Bright Lights Film
1.0
Unspeakably bad dialogue delivered by excruciatingly bad actors in a plot so illogical and stupid it kills unicorns.
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