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.

| Nov 20, 2024

The Last Airbender plays like it should be the work of a low-grade hack with little-to-no experience behind the camera, but instead, it’s by a director who not so long ago was praised as one of today’s finest new storytellers.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 18, 2023

Visually catastrophic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 19, 2022

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 to get studios to fund his films.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 19, 2021

While certain aspects benefit from a big budget, much of the action and elemental effects feel overly processed with an abundance in slow motion and swirling colors.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 29, 2020

The worst film of the year.

| Original Score: .5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

Mediocrity and abuse of slow motion to show off the film's costly digital effects are the keynote of a movie with no interest... except for the music. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 16, 2020

A ridiculously talkie excursion that takes itself way too seriously, resulting in a dull action film that completely sucks the life out of a potentially fun franchise.

| Original Score: F | May 9, 2019

Neither epic enough to be memorable, nor disposable enough to be harmless...Think of Star Wars: Episode I without the nuance (!) and subtlety (!!).

| Original Score: D- | Nov 9, 2018

Shyamalan is your trickster guide on a journey into nothingness, from which only your soul-dead shadow will ever return.

| May 21, 2018

Airbender's editing is clunky, its pace glacial. It feels like watching someone's homemade tai chi highlight reel, if tai chi could be somehow racist.

| Jan 11, 2018

A poor effort from a director who once promised so much.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 19, 2017

There isn't a single convincing performance in the picture, and the badness of the acting is, bizarrely, pretty much in direct proportion to a character's importance.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 18, 2014

The Last Airbender is not just a flop, it's a big-budget flop, and it's a throwback to that grand old genre, the movie that's so bad that it's bad.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 18, 2014

[A] breathtakingly clueless, misconceived, stupid, humourless, unexciting, dim, dumb farrago, the worst film I've seen in years.

| Jul 18, 2014

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

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 18, 2014

Would it be more accurate to call this The Last Shyamalan Movie?

| Jul 18, 2014

Nothing here is helped by M. Night Shyamalan's bizarre casting choices.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 18, 2014

Writer/director M Night Shyamalan's once glorious reputation is tarnished further by this tediously juvenile fantasy adventure.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2014

There's no third-act twist because we never get out of the first act.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 14, 2013