The Last Airbender brings out the worst in everyone
M. Night Shyamalan wastes two hours of your life.
By Hillary Titley
So many of these movies simply slap a world up on the screen without bothering to invite you in. You waste two hours of your life watching piss-pot characters bark out the arbitrary details of their inane, meaningless struggles, arcs and journeys. So is the case with The Last Airbender, where fire, water, earth and air peoples can employ---or "bend"---the forces of the elements at will and spend their time fighting with each other over it. This film makes you feel director M. Night Shyamalan's talent like a phantom limb. The movie is braying and soulless and dull. The one pleasure comes from sporadic, inopportune use of a homophobic, derogatory Brit-slang, as when characters exclaim of a youngster, "This child is a bender!" And it's a sick, smug, snickering pleasure at that. The Last Airbender brings out the worst in everyone.
The Last Airbender
Rated PG (MPAA) · 103 min. · 2010
Rated PG (MPAA) · 103 min. · 2010
Official Site: www.TheLastAirbenderMovie.com
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino
Producer: M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mercer and Frank Marshall
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi, Cliff Curtis, Seychelle Gabriel and Katharine Houghton
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino
Producer: M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mercer and Frank Marshall
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi, Cliff Curtis, Seychelle Gabriel and Katharine Houghton
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