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It's a bad movie

"The Last Airbender" is not good movie. It's not even an "okay" movie. It's just bad. Really bad. I'm not talking about the fact that it's a bad adaption or about the whole racism debate; when I say that this movie sucks, I mean that it sucks as a movie. Why? Well, let me explain:

The cast is a bunch of morons. There's a girl going all Leeroy Jenkins on what looks like a giant radioactive gas bubble, earthbenders that can't recall what earth looks like, waterbenders that are unable to extinguish some small flames, and a little monk that runs away from home because he'll never have a family. Monks can't have a family? No shit?!

Of course, I could forgive this movie if it had good fighting sequences. I love movies like Commando, 300 or Ninja Assassin even though their plot sucks simply because they have really good fighting scenes. This movie, not so much. The slow-motion and the elaborate, embarassing choreography makes all the fights look like 300 on estrogens at best, and at worst, they don't even happen. Talk about anticlimax. There's even a scene where Aang summons a giant wave to crush the firebenders's warships, only to... not crush them. Rather, he shows us this fucking killer wave for what feels like hours, before simply making it vanish. What the hell?!

And this two points aren't nearly the only things that are wrong about this movie. The effects are boring, the story sucks, the movie conveys no message, it has no emotional impact, it doesn't even have hammy lines to make up for it. The movie is a heartless waste of time, it has neither a soul nor entertaining value, it's as if the director intended to show us how a movie can suck without suffering severe budget issues. If that was his intention, he fucking succeeded. Congratulations!