The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Movie Review Is Here Must Read It.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 Movie Review Is Here Must Read It.
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THE Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 movie is the penultimate entry in the popular movie franchise based on Stephenie Meyer’s books.
Lovers Bella (Kirsten Stewart) and vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) finally get married but news that Bella is pregnant isn’t met with traditional joy as her unborn child threatens Bella’s life and the future of the Volturi vampire coven and Quileute wolf pack.
Well, I was big enough to hold my hands up and admit that after a horrible experience watching the first two films in the Twilight Saga, I actually enjoyed the third entry; last year’s Eclipse.
Breaking Dawn – Part 1 is a notch below Eclipse but avoids the stench left by the earlier movies (sorry Twi-Hards!).
They’ve gone down the Harry Potter route of splitting the last book into two movies, with Part 2 coming our way next November.
It’s a real up and down film with some flashes of genuine brilliance and cringeworthy moments.
Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters) makes his series debut in the director’s chair (he’ll helm Part 2 as well) and brings some visual style to this entry.
An Edward flashback sees him sitting in a cinema watching Bride of Frankenstein (a clear nod to Twilight’s central relationship) and a red and white-bathed wedding dream sequence is deliciously devilish.
Bella and Edward’s wedding provides the necessary “aww, that’s lovely” cutesy moments (Bella arm-in-arm with her dad) and very funny speeches from Charlie (Billy Burke), Emmett (Kellan Lutz) and Jessica (Anna Kendrick).
So watching Edward watch Bella walk down that aisle, the adoration in his eyes, the relief when she says “yes,” the kiss that seals their union — quite honestly it doesn’t seem like acting per se (if it is, then it’s one of his best performances). And I won’t even go into the whole honeymoon night sequence, or the way the actors’ on-screen “chemistry” is being marketed, or the mixed-messages it sends to girls about their first sexual experience.
But that’s not the film’s real problem. What Meyer did so brilliantly in the book (or at least really, really well), and what Melissa Rosenberg’s script fails to do, is to mine all the dramatic potential of the symbolic implications of immortality.
The book gives over quite a few of its 756 pages to Bella’s struggle with the high price of dying to live forever, especially for her parents, and Edward’s guilt about it. And there is barely a mention of the provocative abortion debate — should the vampire-human hybrid created during the honeymoon be “removed” before it kills Bella?
For conflict, we’re left with Bella in a few moments of contemplation and consternation — which requires very little from Stewart, an actress capable of so much more. The rest of the tension building is left up to Jacob and his werewolf issues. He goes postal when the wedding invitation arrives, hackles raised, lots of growling, disappearing for days, so that’s a real nail-biter …
For those keeping score, “Breaking Dawn” is missing the interesting indie edge that director Catherine Hardwicke brought to the first film. It does not flat line as badly as the second, “New Moon,” which would have died without the werewolves’ bite. It loses the brief emotional uptick of No. 3, “Eclipse,” which saw the cast blossom into actual actors. So in the “Twilight” pantheon, “Breaking Dawn Part 1” is at best a draw. Hopefully they’ll fix what’s wrong before next year’s finale, because I really can’t take another broken heart.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,” but let’s cut to what fans of the franchise really want to know: Taylor Lautner takes his shirt off in the first five seconds of the movie.
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