Reviews

Eclipse was by far the best of the Twilight saga so far. I'm not a reader so I will not discuss how close or far this film is from the book. What I do know is I am by far a huge vampire and werewolf fan.

I will start with the acting though. Very much improved but still not great. After seeing Robert Pattinson in the movie 'Remember Me' I hardly doubt his acting ability and blame it on this series that I even thought he was bad. On the other hand, I can't say that for the other two big three. It does seem as though Kristen Stewart has read comments or something and has decided to try breathing through her nose for once but her acting is definitely not great. How she got cast for this part I'm not even sure (though I would not change her now). Taylor Lautner is improving but I still see him as the worser of the three. Congrats on all the muscles but you probably should have worked on your acting abilities a little more.

As for the movie, the first 20 minutes were horrible but the movie did pick up. In the end I did enjoy the film but had I not been interested in the saga I probably would not have been. This film was much better put together than the first two and finally some decent action to it. I'm still lost on how 2 people fall in love with Bella's character but hey... that's what Hollywood does.

I still think after reading a lot of the reviews here that so many are biased but the horrible obsession people have created over this series. The movie was not bad... the acting was much improved and the action and dialogue was better. I liked Twilight but I liked New Moon better (though I was not at all satisfied with it the first time and watching it again away from a bunch of screaming teen-aged girls in the theater definitely made a difference) and I definitely like Eclipse more than others.

Overall you wanna be somewhat knowledgeable of the series before you go. But it is entertaining.

Alright, first I shall note that I have not read the book. I hadn't even seen a trailer for this film before I had gone. I went with my mother and sister who had both read the book and more than enjoyed it. I really had no idea what this story was even about. I walked in with a completely open mind.

The acting in this movie was wonderful. On almost every account also. Greg Kinnear was amazing in the movie and the boy who played the son I was even impressed with. Miley Cyrus seemed to be the only exception. I hated her acting from the moment the movie began. As the movie went forth, I started to change my mind at times. She had no problem changing it back though. She was so off and on through out the entire film. She looked confused at times and when she actually had to show emotion like anger it was as if she didn't know what to do. But enough of that.

The story at times seemed rushed and misunderstood. Everything was predictable. The portions of the movie where I actually felt as though I was supposed to cry seemed to happen so fast that I felt like I didn't have time to understand how the characters felt. There were major holes in the plot that I still had questions about and it drove me nuts at times. There were a couple of times where I actually felt like I was enjoying it but they came and went quickly also. The whole movie, and please remember that I absolutely knew nothing about this story before hand, I felt like I had nothing to look forward to.

In the end I would say that I wouldn't suggest paying to see this in theaters. I definitely wouldn't buy it on DVD and I probably wouldn't even recommend renting it later. If by some chance you get an opportunity to see it for free and you're curious then go for it. I'd also like to mention that, from what I understand from my mother and my sister, this movie completely differs from the book so don't expect what you've read and definitely don't get to excited for this.