The third of Stephenie Meyer’s four Twilight stories, the original cast return with new director David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy).
Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) have been reunited, but their forbidden relationship is threatened again with an evil vampire seeking revenge comes lurking. Bella is forced to choose between her true love for Edward or her friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) as the age-old struggle between vampires and werewolves continues. But there is still another choice for Bella to make: mortality or immortality?
Edward or Jacob? Life or death? Graduate high school or tap a vein? Twi-hards will already know the answers. Not that it matters. The third film in the Twilight franchise teases every nuance of anguish from leads Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, who appear more comfortable in their roles and less prone to the ‘sexy-voice-syndrome’ that plagued them in the previous films.
And despite the return to the first film's heavy soap opera, this one feels more like a proper vampire flick. It's just as well Stewart doesn't have a problem with blackheads. Director David Slade (Hard Candy) goes super-close-up, pulling the viewer into Bella's troubled love life and creating an almost nauseating claustrophobia; the same could be said of the dizzying comic book action scenes as the Cullens attempt to ward off an army of "newborn" vampires creating murderous havoc across Seattle.
Brilliant moments of (unintended) comedy arise out of this earnest conflict. A pup tent appears inexplicably on the side of a mountain range – within it unfurls the makings of a prudish threesome, one of many scenes of Jacob flexing his six-pack. Flashbacks to prim social eras explaining how the vampires got that way are rattled by modern American accents. After a tense build-up to the arrival of the most vicious bloodsuckers, it's a little disconcerting to see an army of skinny indie kids, led by the fiery but slight Dakota Fanning, turn up in the climax.
Mostly though, Slade has done an excellent job tapping into what Twilight fans want, regardless of how shamelessly their buttons are pushed. It's not just bloodlust but that of the human variety, a swoony sexual longing that charges Eclipse with the tension that made Stephenie Meyer's printed series so popular.
By Rebecca Barry Hill, Flicks.co.nz
I recommend this movie for any teenager! It is a fabulous movie but the book is definitely better! Has lots of romance and humor in it! Funny when Bella brakes her hand.
I almost thought I was watching a spoof film before I realised it was the real deal. Better than the New Moon, but that is not saying much.
i thought this movie was awesome coz it had more fighting in it and epicness but on new moon i was close to falling asleep on my seat in the sinima there was basicly no fighting in it it was just love wat people really want is the epic fighting
This movie is by far the best in the Twilight Saga. It has more action and isn't dull like the first two movies. But to be honest the only thing that makes this movie interesting is the wolf pack. It is the scenes that the wolves appear in that give the movie it's colour. Without the vamp/wolf fighting this movie would not have the 'oomf' that is has.
Get over it Jane you are so misguided. Try living surrounded by enemies these same enemies who disguise themselves as women as they attempt to blow up your children. Then get criticized by the world for protecting themselves. You are so sucky!
The movie contains violence and death, but not really very much. For most of its languorous running time, it listens to conversations between Bella and Edward, Bella and David, Edward and David, and Edward and Bella and David. This would play better if any of them were clever conversationalists, but their ideas are limited to simplistic renderings of their desires.
The long-awaited third chapter of the Twilight saga - Eclipse - has opened in Christchurch cinemas and Margaret Agnew says it's the best film of the series.
By far the best Twilight film to date, Slade should satisfy the fan base while opening up the series to more sceptical viewers…
It took three films, but The Twilight Saga finally nails just the right tone in Eclipse, a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions from Stephenie Meyer's novels with the movies' supernatural trappings.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is back with all of the lethal and loving bite it was meant to have: The kiss of the vampire is cooler, the werewolf is hotter, the battles are bigger and the choices are, as everyone with a pulse (and a few without) knows by now, life-changing.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 1st Jul 2010.
Release date: July 1st 2010.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
