The Last Airbender

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The Last Airbender

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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)

Jul 18, 2014

1/5

A quite breathtakingly inept hodge-podge of vapid spirituality, playground chopsocky and visual effects that take 3D to an entirely new level: Zero-D.

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Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

Sep 16, 2010

1/5

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.

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David Sexton

London Evening Standard

Aug 19, 2010

1/5

How did Shyamalan get it so wrong?

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James Profetto

Reel James (YouTube)

Jul 4, 2026

1/10

This did provide something for me: the worst experience I might have ever had watching a movie in my life.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Jul 20, 2025

1/5

The action scenes, even with the somewhat dazzling effects, are badly staged and feel like that they have no purpose.

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Joseph Tomastik

Loud and Clear Reviews

Nov 20, 2024

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.

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Eric N

@RT00689474 3 days ago

I have never watched this movie! The previews made it look like hot garbage so I stayed away. It bc has it all bad dialogue, special effects, just bad everything. M Night needs to go to jail for this crime of a movie.

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malachai M

@Malmurphy 6 days ago

the visuals were great, the rest of the film was just rubish

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Nate S

@RT65246076 Oct 20, 2026

I don't say this likely. As you can tell by my profile I take critiquing films that I watch very seriously. But this is EASILY the WORST movie I have EVER watched. Period. I cannot believe that this is how they decided to follow up the first trilogy initially. Genuinely they had 5-star world-building, a 5-star story, a HUGE budget (especially for 2010), and SOMEHOW managed to make the worst choreography, line delivery, acting, pacing, and CGI that I have ever seen in a studio film. It is embarrassing for every party involved in this. I wish I could give this a half star. I need to go to bed and pretend this never happened.

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 20, 2026

The Last Airbender stinks...

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Derick C

@RT27486417 Sep 4, 2026

Was part of My childhood Fez parte da minha infância, sempre gostei desse filme sempre achei legal, fui só descobrir um dia desses que ele foi super odiado, fazendo eu entender o motivo de ele não ter tido uma Sequência, o pior inimigo da saga avatar são os "fãs"

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Samantha T

@RT27979893 Sep 1, 2026

This was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The acting was terrible, not only to mention the special effects horrid. They took all that was good about the show and threw it in the trash—complex characters, no, good story, humor no, diverse cast, no and exploration of the effects of grief, no. Watching paint dry would be better then rewatching this abomination of a movie. They change everything about the characters and can't even say Aang name right. To parents they are so many better kids movies than this. It's so bad that it's not even worth subjecting yourself to it even to make fun of it.

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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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