There's still time to sharpen your fangs and sparkle your glitter, Twilight: Eclipse is not yet finished its theatrical run.
In the midst of the romance between Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), Bella begins to see that love comes with sacrifices. With the intention of protecting her, Edward tries to get Bella to stop seeing her best friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) a werewolf and rival for Bella's affections. But when the vengeful Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) masses a vampire army to settle her wrath, the vampires and werewolves must make a reluctant alliance to protect her.
Here the movie tries to show the division of Bella's heart, where she's supposed to be torn between her feelings for Edward and Jacob. The problem is that the film is practically spelling out the message "This is the reason Edward is perfect." The script makes Jacob out to be this obsessive monster that won't be satisfied until he gets what he wants.
Yet for all these reasons, the movie continuously goes to unbelievable lengths to sexify Jacob more than New Moon. You will hear lines where you know these filmmakers are just dangling candy in front of these girls in the audience. He remains the best performer out of our three main leads, with Pattinson being slightly better than in the last film and Stewart generally holding back once again.
One of the interesting things of the film is that here we get to understand the backstories of some of the Cullen family such as Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) and Rosalie (Nikki Reed). But these stories do nothing much to character analysis and have barely (if any) relevance to what the movie is about.
Just like in New Moon, the new characters are greatly underdeveloped. There are new additions to the vampire and werewolf clans, but they're brought in for nothing more than the sake of widening the scale. Even Bryce Dallas Howard as the new actress to Victoria is largely ignored. You can tell Howard is able to act through the emotions written for her, but she hardly seems to have a personality.
From the beginning of the film, the direction plays it out to be almost a horror movie. But that's the only real sense of direction that is a recurring feeling. In the second act, everything just feels loose or abandoned and by the third it feels like they rushed to catch back up with what was going on.
The instrumental background music in Eclipse is well orchestrated, but it doesn't mix at all with the style of modern rock, punk or techno tunes. What comes out of the action is an aggressive display of fighting style, but nothing much to be impressive to the viewer.
Eclipse is the best of the Twilight Saga so far, but it has much to go before being appreciated by the general audience members. It's clear through the writing that character analysis is lightly touched on, but there is plenty of times in the movie that the viewers won't be able to relate to these characters, regardless of their lack of fangs or fur.
In the midst of the romance between Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), Bella begins to see that love comes with sacrifices. With the intention of protecting her, Edward tries to get Bella to stop seeing her best friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) a werewolf and rival for Bella's affections. But when the vengeful Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) masses a vampire army to settle her wrath, the vampires and werewolves must make a reluctant alliance to protect her.
Here the movie tries to show the division of Bella's heart, where she's supposed to be torn between her feelings for Edward and Jacob. The problem is that the film is practically spelling out the message "This is the reason Edward is perfect." The script makes Jacob out to be this obsessive monster that won't be satisfied until he gets what he wants.
Yet for all these reasons, the movie continuously goes to unbelievable lengths to sexify Jacob more than New Moon. You will hear lines where you know these filmmakers are just dangling candy in front of these girls in the audience. He remains the best performer out of our three main leads, with Pattinson being slightly better than in the last film and Stewart generally holding back once again.
One of the interesting things of the film is that here we get to understand the backstories of some of the Cullen family such as Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) and Rosalie (Nikki Reed). But these stories do nothing much to character analysis and have barely (if any) relevance to what the movie is about.
Just like in New Moon, the new characters are greatly underdeveloped. There are new additions to the vampire and werewolf clans, but they're brought in for nothing more than the sake of widening the scale. Even Bryce Dallas Howard as the new actress to Victoria is largely ignored. You can tell Howard is able to act through the emotions written for her, but she hardly seems to have a personality.
From the beginning of the film, the direction plays it out to be almost a horror movie. But that's the only real sense of direction that is a recurring feeling. In the second act, everything just feels loose or abandoned and by the third it feels like they rushed to catch back up with what was going on.
The instrumental background music in Eclipse is well orchestrated, but it doesn't mix at all with the style of modern rock, punk or techno tunes. What comes out of the action is an aggressive display of fighting style, but nothing much to be impressive to the viewer.
Eclipse is the best of the Twilight Saga so far, but it has much to go before being appreciated by the general audience members. It's clear through the writing that character analysis is lightly touched on, but there is plenty of times in the movie that the viewers won't be able to relate to these characters, regardless of their lack of fangs or fur.
-Braydon K
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