The Last Airbender
Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film is set in a world where human civilization is divided into four nations: Water, Earth, Air and Fire.
Even though I'm not a fan of the animated series, I have seen some episodes of the show and it is brilliant and had so much going in it. That said, the film really did sucked. But I'll just say that the film is terrible, but it is not THE worst film this year. But boy, Shyamalan sucks really hard in this one. The problem with this film is that when the mythology and concept of the series is about martial arts with elemental bending skills (which is a badass concept), M. Night goes out of the way to make the film so much boring and dull with so little action and spectacles thus turning it into another bad Harry Potter knock-off. There is some nice story going on, but the narrative goes at a giant snail-pace and all the characters have to be melo-dramatic about everything. Not much we see Aang(the main character) get captured again and again and always slips away from badguys when they are NOT looking at the time! And there are so many pointless setups and buildups to everything that is so not rewarding to the audience. Shyamalan... maybe just stop making films for 5 years and take a loooong vacations, because your losing streak in films are getting worse and worse. But I'll give you a compliment...
Since this is not called "Avatar: The Last Airbender" like how it is originally called because James Cameron used it for his film, I'll say this:
The Last Airbender is a very terrible movie, but I don't hate it.
Avatar is a better made movie, yet I have SO MUCH hatred for it.
Shyamalan is spared from my pure fiery hatred.... for now...
1 and a half out of 5 stars
1 comment:
No, really. This is the worst movie of the year, hands-down. I know people who aren't even fans of the show that will back up this claim. This movie just... man, it was such a waste.
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