M. Night Shyamalan’s Version Of The Last Airbender

M. Night Shyamalan is the director of the new movie “The Last Airbender.” He was criticized badly by Roger Ebert in his review of the movie by stating: “The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.”

M. Night Shyamalan was also the director of the big 1999 breakout hit movie “The Sixth Sense.” Ever since, his other movies had been criticized badly by random movie critics.

M. Night Shyamalan’s record can be found at the Metacritic.com. The site has a subjective scoring system which tries to convert reviews to a 100-point scale and then average them all. Below is his score:

The Sixth Sense (1999) Score: 64
Unbreakable (2000): 62
Signs (2002): 59
The Village (2004): 44
Lady in the Water (2006): 36
The Happening (2008): 34

M. Night Shyamalan made two movies before Sixth Sense, (Praying With Anger in 1992, Wide Awake in 1998) but had not been scored at Metacritic.com.

M. Night Shyamalan’s movies had only grossed a total of $840 million dollars (US Only) but it is an accomplishment considering that he’s an Indian director. Perhaps he is the only Indian director to have this kind of success on this scale in America. If you have watched The Sixth Sense you will think that the director behind it is talented but after that movie, all the following movies had flopped. Critics said that The Sixth Sense’s success can be attributed to the actors. That movie even accounted for nearly half of Shyamalan’s total grossed earnings ($300 million in US only).

M. Night Shyamalan had been trying to get out from his comfort zone by making an epic fantasy similar to Star Wars (Avatar: The Last Airbender). Unfortunately, he failed again.

The Last Airbender is a live-action version of Nickelodeon cartoon.

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