I don't know whether Shyamalan was sgiven an impossible task with Air Bender (after all how CAN you do a decent job of Avatar in a 2 hr movie, even if you're only covering Book 1? There's too much you have to chop out), or whether he's just proven that even with good source material he can't make a great movie.
Seems like Sixth Sense was a fluke and he got lucky with Hailey Joel. The actors carried Unbreakable, which was actually a pretty weak movie, and everything else has been rubbish.
Metacritic seems to have the measure of M. Night it seems. He's going to be in Uwe Boll trerritory soon. In fact with a 20 he's already there.
I prefer Rotten Tomatoes for my meta-review measure of movie quality (though sometimes I completely disagree, like how the other Avatar managed to review so well). Last Air Bender is on 8% there, which really is rivalling Uwe Boll.
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