Every M. Night Shyamalan Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

14. The Last Airbender

You won't find many arguing against the assertion that Shyamalan's $150 million live-action adaptation of the hit animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is his worst film to date.

Avatar often feels like a student stage production with a colossal budget - the acting is amateur, the dialogue painfully wooden, and the action executed without even a shred of artistic flair.

It's painfully clear that the film was hacked up and stitched together in post-production, resulting in a scarcely coherent experience for newcomers to the IP, let alone fans of the source material.

Shyamalan was clearly completely out of his depth here, providing the ultimate proof that he's much better-suited to more modestly budgeted projects.

Despite sweeping the Razzie awards, though, it somehow managed to gross $319.7 million at the box office, which is presumably why Shyamalan was allowed to make another glossy tentpole just three years later. Speaking of which...