Review as neither hater nor a fan

Rating: 4/10 (8 February 2012)

I heard how many people are mad about Twilight and I heard how many people say it's the worst movie of the year. Then I decided to watch it myself and this is my totally unbiased review:
THE GOOD
Kristen Stewart actually did good as calm, yet romantic, emo-esque, mature and immature at the same time, Bella Swan. I also loved the way she acted when sick from pregnancy and especially loved the make-up/effects they put on her to look sick. It really did worked. Taylor Lautner was surprisingly OK as Jacob, his actions made sense and he acted like he really cares for Bella. Alice was cute as always. Billy Burke did a great role as Bella's father Charlie, maybe most convincingly human character in the story. Scenery was good, photographer did some really amazing shots, especially exterior, you can actually feel the warmth/coldness when needed in the woods and the rivers. Production design was cool too and costumes were fine, I mean it was obviously more costume supervising than designing, but it was just like it should be. The whole concept of concentrating on a relationship between a human and a vampire seems fun, and only thing I liked script-wise is that they decided to concentrate on one main storyline, cause in this case in particular, any side-story would be too distracting.
THE MEDIOCRE
Acting was just OK, but nothing special for most other actors. Interesting to see actors like Anna Kendrick, Michael Welch and Mia Maestro, otherwise great, to just be there to fulfill couple of badly written phrases. There was more of Nikki Reed this time, and I still cannot decide weather she did good or not. She wasn't terrible, but maybe bland, which is good for Stewart's character, but not everyone. CGI wolves and running was done adequately, but still unpleasantly surprised since Twilight is supposed to be earning millions and we all know how effects can be good these days. And background songs' lyrics were sometimes just too cheesy.
THE BAD
First of all, the whole movie is about weather Bella will survive pregnancy? Couldn't she abort as soon as she got pregnant? Why did she got pregnant anyway if she's human? Stephanie Meyer better have some good explanation on that one. And couldn't he make her a vampire when they got the news? Why is sex so violent? Didn't Meyer study Brahm Stocker and other vampire authors? Vampires drink human blood, but can do intercourse just like humans. I don't want to spoil the further plot, but it has some holes. And it's boring at times, same thing over and over again. Also, I must add that Edward Cullen is the most miserable character in modern literature that gets so much attention. Why? He is sexist, boring, obviously has diarrhea just to start with. Why on Earth would any girl go through all that just to be with him? So immature. And yeah, imprinting, sounds a lot like pedophilia. I mean, she was just born! Barely a newborn! I mean, it did save her life, but in that case, wouldn't it be better to present it as Jacob's sacrifice and sort of arranged, but never official and never consumed marriage, just for convenience. She's just a baby, and when she grows-up, wouldn't it be normal for her to pick who she'll really be with? It totally grossed me out! And Jacob had good chemistry with Leah, why not go with that? Much more appropriate!
THE VERDICT
Well, all given and taken, this movie could've been so much better! I give it 5 starts out of 10, but actually it's more like 4.5. It's still better than Spy Kids 4D, but it's too cheesy to be taken seriously.