The Last Airbender
Four nations, one destiny.
Four nations, one destiny.
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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2010
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A century has passed since the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations of air, water, and earth in its attempt for global domination. Aang, the long-lost Avatar, is found by Water Tribe siblings Katara and Sokka and must learn to master water, earth, and fire bending to defeat the Fire Nation and restore balance to the world.
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Runtime:
103 min
Release date:
30 Jun 2010
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$150,000,000
Revenue:
$319,713,881
Awards:
8 wins & 12 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
One is bored and stupefied by what seems like an eternity of vacuous spectacle, cod-Buddhist tosh and clunking dialogue.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
12 Aug 2010
rotten:
[T]he film works so hard to explain its plot developments that it scarcely has any time left over to dramatize them. Exposition has not merely vanquished mimesis, it has burned its homes to the ground and sown salt in its fields.
– Christopher Orr,
The Atlantic,
2 Jul 2010
rotten:
Stilted dialogue, wooden acting, glacial pacing, cheesy special effects, tacky-looking sets, ugly costumes, poorly staged and edited action sequences, all shown in murky, cut-rate 3-D.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
2 Jul 2010
rotten:
A dull, boring, poorly acted, limply written and thoroughly unappealing fantasy, featuring bland characters locked in a struggle of no interest.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jul 2010
rotten:
M. Night Shyamalan's big-screen live-action version of the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series constitutes a form of Chinese water torture in which tin-ear line-readings take the place of drips.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
1 Jul 2010