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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63USA TodayScott BowlesUSA TodayScott BowlesHe hasn't mastered the craft yet, but M. Night Shyamalan may be on to something with this action-movie thing.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie is "Star Wars" with martial arts, plus a touch of "The Last Emperor." Technically, it's not badly done; I enjoyed the physical clash of elements, the water balls rising like sculpture in the air.
- 38St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsA toxic potion that will put children to sleep and kill his (M. Night Shyamalan) career.
- 30Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzWhile the special effects are impressive enough, M. Night Shyamalan's film doesn't make a lick of sense.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttEven during the climax, the film still is struggling to introduce the world of the film and its strange rules.
- 25Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrThe Last Airbender' is dreadful, an incomprehensible fantasy-action epic that makes the 2007 film "The Golden Compass,'' a similarly botched adaptation of a beloved property from another medium, look like a four-star classic.
- 25Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreThis colossal folly, the fiasco of the summer of 2010 - gives us all a ringside seat at the sight of Mr. "I See Dead People's" career gurgling down the drain.
- 20VarietyVarietyThis is all enormously disappointing, of course, since the best we could hope for from a live-action "Avatar" adaptation is the mind-blowing equivalent of our first encounters with wire-fu, rather than this cartoony nonsense.
- 12Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.
- 0The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe Last Airbender isn't that much different from the rest of this summer's generally dire multiplex fare-from "The A-Team" to "Jonah Hex"... But it is remarkable in one respect: It's the worst of them.