20 Worst Movie Performances Of The Decade

The Last Airbender is one of the worst-acted Hollywood blockbusters of them all and everyone in it (save for Dev Patel) is terrible, but Nicola Peltz's work in the film lingers in the memory the most.

It's never fun to rip on a young actor, but Peltz's performance in this movie is... well, utterly horrendous. Although, like with many of the other films on this list, she was working with an absolutely awful script, she certainly hadn't shown any improvement four years after this in Transformers: Age of Extinction, a weak film that somehow looks like Citizen Kane compared to The Last Airbender.

Peltz narrates the film and gives one of the worst voiceovers you'll ever hear, while when she's on-screen she's more wooden than a viking long-ship and plays Katara with a single, unintentionally hilarious expression throughout.

In particular, the scene where she and fellow protagonists Aang (Noah Ringer) and Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) incite a rebellion among a group of captives of the film's villains is dreadful. The moments where Katara pushes a soldier who is insulting Aang over and yells "Leave him alone!" and when she calls "Don't be afraid!" to the captives are the peak of cringe-worthiness.