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
The Last Airbender
Four nations, one destiny.
2010 · 1h 43m · PG
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
M. Night Shyamalan
Overview
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
5%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
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
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