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There is no point in beating the dead horse, in this case a dull flick. But just want to say, it was terribly painful experience to see a great story falling apart from the first frame of the movie. Probably I was way too much in to the original series. Being aware of the archetype of each character in the series, I was expecting magic all the way. I was gleaming with all my teeth at the glimpse of bending types and Star Wars kind of scrolling text in prologue. It was great to see Katara’s narration throughout the movie even though it was totally patchy.
Then ……Aang appeared – didn’t work! Here’s Sokka – nope! Here’s Zuko – Nay! Aasif Mandvi as Admiral Zhao cannot be a bad guy; we love him in The Daily Show! How can he pull villainy with the same voice and tone? And Fire Lord Ozai just walks in to the movie. Excuse me, isn’t he supposed to be the ultimate bad-ass and needs to be sitting on the fire?! My friend leaned over and whispered – “just imagine this guy in book 3 fighting with Aang..” I don’t want to derail this movie completely, Nicola Peltz as Katara and Dev Patel as Prince Zuko were passable. Shaun Toub as Iroh is really good, but I kept on thinking that this character needs to be fat and drink tea all the time. And when he goes fire blazing in the end, it would have been a surprise! Summer Bishil as Azula was trying to give us a vicious smile and I slapped myself in the forehead. – Sequel? – No, please no!
The characters were not established in any point of time. Things just move on and on, leaving us confused relentlessly?! Since I was well aware of the mythology, I was at least able to quickly switch my gears to follow the jumpy screenplay. Imagine people with no knowledge whatsoever – what would they get out of this movie?! If the movie had better pacing, cheesy expositions, active people, heavy music, I would have walked out satisfied. My expectation was rock bottom after seeing 6% rating in tomatoes. Still it managed to pull me down. This is supposed to be a fun family friendly action movie. And it was a dull confusing mess! Let’s close this book, as well as Night’s.
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