Personally...I like M. Nights movies. I have not seen the Airbender film, but it's not like I havent been entertained by all of his other films that I've seen. The Happening, Lady in the Water, The Village, Signs, Unbreakable, Devil...all we're entertaining for me. I really think his one great "flaw" in film making- was jumping off in a big way with Sixth Sense. Since that time everything else he's done has been held up to that film, and one could argue that none of those aforementioned films comes even close to that movie and story. Could all of those other films have gone in a different direction or taken another turn and gone over the psy-thriller edge? Sure. Just like I might write something about a dark, slithering, malevolent creature that lives in the storm sewer on a suburban cul-de-sac, I could just as easily write about a raccoon that dwells there as well. I can see how he takes the viewer to a certain point in the story and when you anticipate and hope that "the shits about to go down", he can leave you feeling unsatisifed because he doesn't "step off the curb" so to speak,. But I think you're still entertained along the journey nonetheless.