Kristen Stewart's show

Rating: Null/10 (31 December 2011)

To anyone paying attention to the word-of-mouth publicity, this movie's complete immersion in melodrama is all but predictable. There is the sappiest of wedding and honeymoon, pregnancy, maternity love and all the other stuff. There is also a bit of "Rosemary's Baby".
Kristen Stewart deserves all the credit, not just in the generally acknowledged maturing of her acting ability. She is no beauty in the conventional sense, but Bella does not need to look beautiful - one is enough and two may be redundant. Class and character is what becomes Stewart. The credit however goes to allowing herself to look so positively ghastly when she is being eaten alive, almost in a literal sense, by the baby inside her.
Very much in the same vein of Harry Potter 7.1, this Twilight 4.1 is a preparation of the grand finale. The entire two hours is about two things – the marriage and the pregnancy and childbirth. Stewart dominates as Robert Pattinson is little more than a big support. Taylor Lautner carried on winning more and more sympathy form the audience. The familiar faces and character are all there, talking and walking props. Most disappointing is the blink-and-you-miss-her appearance of Anna Kendrick.
After the birth of the baby girl which Jacob takes under his wings or, shall I say, claws, the one last bit of drama and tension remaining is the fate of Bella. This is handled quite cleverly. After a long struggle on the brink of death (longer than many in the audience might expect) Bella is shown in a close-up of her face which had been expressionless in a good last 15 minutes (not continuously, thank heavens). In the very last shot, we see Bella's eye, finally, open abruptly – and the iris is red. See you in November 2012..if the world is still around.