A story that could've been told in 30 minutes...

Rating: 4/10 (25 November 2011)

Breaking Dawn as a book is quite extensive, it takes up more than one afternoon to read it, but a lenghty book doesn't necessarily requires to be split in two parts when making the screenplay adaptation, and sadly, the core story during this first part takes only 30 minutes to be told with the rest being only space filler.
Bella Swan has gone through quite an ordeal in the last 3 movies to maintain her relationship with the vampire Edward Cullen, despite that relationship actually threatening the well-being and stability of covenants made by mythological werewolves, other vampire clans, human beings and the Cullen family, they only seem to care about loving each other, no matter who has to die or in what kind of gruesome way must a fetus be conceived.
The movie at some times falls into a category that I could describe as disturbing, actually disgusting, we see a skeletal Bella Swan, complete with broken ribs, spine and with a huge bruised belly, about to deliver a vampire baby, actually drinking packages of human blood, and the director didn't hesitate to be graphical on this one, or on the birth scene, in which Edward actually bites Bella's genitals and other parts of her deformed, destroyed body to try and revive her.
On the other hand we see a wolf clan breaking apart and having it's members fight over, because one of their kind is obsessed over a girl who has an obsession of her own but for vampires and who keeps endangering their species, not only turning them against vampires (which happen to be their most hated enemy), but also violating sacred rules which their kind established centuries ago.
The screenplay is really flawed, the script sound cheesy and fake, most of the dialogue seems pretty rehearsed, and every action seems to take forever to be performed, this because they needed to fill time so they can release a second part.
We see a lot of useless actions that happen, Bella spends 5 minutes shaving her legs, another 5 frying chicken, another 5 playing chess, another 5 receiving a hairpin for her wedding, and another 5 drinking human blood with a straw.
In the end, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 takes a huge step back from last year's Eclipse, there's no great action sequences, and the only one, which is the Cullen Vs Werewolf battle, is only 2 minutes long and in complete darkness, there's no concrete climax, the cliffhanger ending that is supposed to be the starting point for next year's movie is not only predictable but also incoherent, just because she turned into a vampire all of a sudden her hair was dyed, makeup automatically applied, nails done, and fake eyelashes appeared.
4/10