The Last Airbender
Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), to restore balance to their war-torn world.--©Official Site
1.3 out of 5 based on 16 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Certificate |
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| Genre |
Family / Children, Action / Adventure |
| Director |
M. Night Shyamalan |
| Cast |
Dev Patel, Cliff Curtis, Nicola Peltz Jackson Rathbone |
| Studio |
Paramount Pictures UK |
| Release Date |
August 2010 |
| Running Time |
103 mins |
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Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara (Nicola Peltz), a Waterbender, and her brother, Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), to restore balance to their war-torn world.--©Official Site
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Reviews
Empire Magazine
Ian Nathan
“Shyamalan is surprisingly unsure of the material, and his tone haphazard. The plot creaks, great sacrifices and dazzling secrets slip by meaninglessly and the film falls dangerously short of the conviction that made the Rings trilogy sing.”
17/08/2010
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
“After 20 minutes, though, I again felt the approach of coma. When nothing you believe or believe in is at stake, your plot-receptor mechanisms close down. Your reluctance to understand intensifies your failure to understand. Soon you are a speck of illiteracy on a cosmic map belonging entirely to children.”
11/08/2010
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The Independent
Geoffrey MacNab
“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 the more solemn scenes all the more laughable.”
13/08/2010
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The Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
“By specifically critical and broadly adult standards, this film is undoubtedly a disappointment, but it is disappointing in a way that its intended audience may not notice.”
01/07/2010
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The New York Times
A. O. Scott
“The movie is so dim and fuzzy that you might mistake your disposable 3-D glasses for someone else’s prescription shades.”
30/06/2010
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The Observer
Philip French
“Shot on a massive budget in New Zealand, Greenland and the States, and weighed down by unimpressive special effects, this is what Shakespeare might have called a wicked expense of spirit in a wasteland of Shyamalan.”
15/08/2010
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Variety
Peter Debruge
“So why does "The Last Airbender" feel like the last Airbender movie auds will ever see? Part of it is miscasting, as uneven acting undermines Shyamalan's ultra-serious approach, but the cardinal sin was entrusting someone so awkward with action, then subjecting the flat result to a last-minute 3D conversion.”
30/06/2010
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The Daily Telegraph
Sukhdev Sandhu
“The Last Airbender, based on an animated television series, is a veritable man-mountain of dung, a quite breathtakingly inept hodge-podge of vapid spirituality, playground chopsocky and visual effects that take 3D to an entirely new level: Zero-D.”
12/08/2010
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Time Out
Nigel Floyd
“One is bored and stupefied by what seems like an eternity of vacuous spectacle, cod-Buddhist tosh and clunking dialogue. ”
12/08/2010
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The Times
Wendy Ide
“If ever a film needed a sense of humour, this is it. But even though The Last Airbender would be an exercise in high camp even if the characters weren’t calling each other benders all the time, it is ploddingly serious about itself.”
13/08/2010
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“...muddled, lifeless fantasy...”
15/08/2010
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Total Film
Neil Smith
“Half a star for James Newton Howard’s imperious score and another for Andrew Lesnie’s lensing. But even that’s marred by muddy 3D in a film lacking any sort of dimension.”
09/08/2010
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
“The film is a perfect storm of ridiculous direction, clueless acting, and writing that must be the worst ever green-lit by a Hollywood Studio.”
12/08/2010
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“At the cinema showing I attended, the British crowd reacted derisively at key dialogue moments. One wise old lady says solemnly to a young man: "I could tell at once that you were a bender, and that you would realise your destiny." One character tells another wonderingly: "There are some really powerful benders in the Northern Water Zone."... But at least this linguistic lurch provided some interest in a film that is mind-bendingly boring, with an utter lack of narrative drive, an absence of jeopardy or anything at all being at stake, or of interest, in any way whatever. ”
12/08/2010
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The Evening Standard
David Sexton
“...save for Dev Patel, none of these young actors is at all engaging, apparently having been told that a wide-eyed stare is a good value default expression. Then there’s the dialogue, which would disgrace a homespun primary school history play — “Sire, I have good news, I have found scrolls in the library.” “I am pleased.””
13/08/2010
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The Independent on Sunday
John Walsh
“...breathtakingly clueless, misconceived, stupid, humourless, unexciting, dim, dumb farrago, the worst film I've seen in years. It makes Clash of the Titans look like Götterdämmerung.”
15/08/2010
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