Twilight is a 2008 romantic-fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer.
GRADING :
Visual: A
Content: C (1st hour: B / 2nd hour: D)
Acting: D
Dialogue: F
SYNOPSIS : Seventeen-year-old Isabella “Bella” Swan moves to the small town of Forks, Washington, to live with her father, Charlie. There, she finds herself drawn to a mysterious classmate, Edward Cullen, who is revealed to be a 108-year-old vampire, but is physically seventeen. Although Edward discourages the romance at first, they soon fall deeply in love. When the arrival of three nomadic vampires, James, Victoria, and Laurent, puts Bella’s life in danger, Edward and his family, Alice, Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie, put their lives at stake to save her.
REVIEW : This film is about Bella, a young girl that moves to a small town in Washington to live with her father. Because she is so clumsy, pale, awkward and NEW, everyone wants to be friends with her (sure). And of course every boy in school wants to date her (again, sure they do). Nonetheless, the most common and normal thing that happens to new kids in school, the HOTTEST (apparently, he is) GUY in school secretly wants her, although in a way that no other boy would WANT her, he wants to drink ALL of her blood because obviously, he is a vampire (did not see that coming, did you?). Well, if you think you know where this is going, think again. This is not you typical VAMPIRE movie, trust me. Its is just a LOVE story (if you can see that, accounting that the actors do not look in love) that HAPPENS to include Vampires.
Don’t worry, I will tell you why. In this film, being a vampire means:
- They look FREAKING pale for no reason (they do have sunlight exposure)
- Go to school and sit in the cool table
- They can actually read minds (some others can see the future)
- Their eyes change color when they are hungry
- They SPARKLE in the sun, instead of having a painful death
- They play Baseball
- They RUN really really fast
- See, didn’t I tell you they were different
But, taking away all this, these are not the reasons why this movie BLOWS.
PROBLEMS: The movie its actually okay, your typical teenager film with really bad acting. Don’t get me wrong, not every teen film has bad acting, its just the majority. The movie itself has a great beginning, the 1st hour its amazing, it gets you hooked. A person that has not read the book, can also enjoy it. Nevertheless, everything changes when she goes into the woods with him (the 2nd hour), its starts going DOWN HILL. At the beginning you think that the bad acting is just result of the awkwardness that the actors feel toward each other before THEY FALL IN LOVE. Nevertheless, you realize that is NOT. The actors do not progress along with the characters, they actually make it worse.
Plus, the DIALOGUE do not help either. Although the dialogue its suppose to be a little cheesy (teen girl novel), they over do it.
SIMILAR FILMS :
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (teen vampires)
Romeo and Juliet (forbidden love)
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