The Last Airbender

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

This empty, misfired epic from M. Night Shyamalan is boring and strengthens the claim that he is the worst director working in mainstream cinema today.

How did Shyamalan get it so wrong?

The dialogue is tin-eared in the extreme, the 3D is used in a strictly tokenistic fashion and the absolute lack of a sense of irony or humour makes the more solemn scenes all the more laughable.

Shyamalan takes the beloved source material, strips the characters of all emotion, throws in intrusive narration, douses it in CGI and tries to pass it off as a viable effort.

After the first five seconds, it seems as if you have been watching it for around two-and-a-half hours, and that this time has passed in four-and-a-half days.

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.

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.

Visually catastrophic. [Full review in Spanish]

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.