Liverpool Daily Post film review: The Last Airbender
Aug 13 2010 Liverpool Daily Post
THE LAST AIRBENDER (PG)Rating: ll
M NIGHT SHYAMALAN is an odd choice to direct a special effects-laden adventure based on Nickelodeon favourite, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
After all, this is the filmmaker who allowed us to see dead people in The Sixth Sense, created a modern day superhero in Unbreakable and allowed Mother Nature to slaughter most of mankind in The Happening.
The Last Airbender is a very different beast: a big budget journey of discovery, punctuated by sprawling battle sequences on a similar scale to The Lord Of The Rings, that relies heavily on spectacle, rather than substance, or Shyamalan’s famed narrative twists.
The writer-director juggles the myriad technical elements, occasionally let down by unconvincing digital effects.
Moreover, some of the performances are more wooden than the gargantuan sets, creating repeated moments of unintentional hilarity.
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