Twilight Film Sinks Into an Emotional Quagmire — A Review

The Twilight film meanders into an overly faithful adaptation that renders it without bite and venom.

The film begins sure-footedly with the opening scene of a fleeing deer trying to escape a predator in full pursuit, and then rapidly deteriorates into a quagmire of overly long cringe worthy emotional scenes, which, unfortunately, never quite manages to escape the sucking slow pace that it has unwittingly fallen into.

Its lead stars mirrors their characters’ opposed realities by the polarity of their performances. While Kristen Stewart beautifully captures the allure of the subterranean thought patterns that makes Bella so desirable to humans, vampires and werewolves; Robert Pattinson’s performance as Edward Cullen can be likened to a newborn vampire that can either be guided by a Carlisle-like figure to full maturity and understanding of its nature, or, suffer a Volturi’s death by dismemberment, with the bleeding remains thrown into a blazing fire.

As Harry Potter brightened from a lackluster dull adaptation into iridescent films in the brilliant hands of directors Alfonso Cuaron and David Yates, so shall I hope that the Twilight saga will find its own blinding sparkling possibilities.

SHAMELESS PLUG To read my version of the New Moon (Unofficial) Film Script, please visit A Twilight Kiss. (I started this after watching the film.)

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