M Night Shayamalan bashing has been a favourite past time for people for a while now and if it wasn’t for his worthy first few films he surely would be struggling to get anything green lit following on from such disasters as Lady In The Water and the truly dire The Happening. So now we have the bizarrely titled The Last Airbender, though, thanks to James Cameron, this is at least an improvement on Avatar: The Last Airbender. The film is based on the animated TV series of the same name and concerns a world that is divided into four nations (Water, Air, Earth and Fire). The fire nation is attempting to take over the other three nations, but is hindered by the appearance of an Avatar (someone who is a master at utilising all the above elements) who defends them from the fire nation’s assaults. If it all sounds very childish, well, it is. Maybe this is why it has had such negative reviews as whilst not many adults or older children will get much from this younger children should definitely enjoy the simple spectacle, especially as some of the more negative aspects of the film will go over their heads. The worst of the lot being the awful acting. I’ve always felt Shayamalan isn’t an actor’s director and this is bad even by his standards (not helped by the child playing the Avatar having zero acting experience before this film). This is a serious problem for the film, which even some decent special effects can’t cover up. Overall, this is still way below prime Shayamalan, without much evidence of a recovery soon, but at least one demographic will enjoy his latest outing.
The OC Film Sting Final Verdict
Some terrible acting, but a younger audience won’t notice such woodenness amongst some pretty nifty CGI. Rating: 5/10.
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