Embarrassing

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2012)

Four books and five films later, the Twilight Saga has now ended hopefully. The last of Stephanie Meyer's books was split in two for Hollywood's latest money-grabbing scheme.
Part 2 is where all the drama is supposed to really kick off but after the deflating experience of part 1 it's difficult to get in the Twilight spirit. Having read the book I know how much of a dud the ending is and clearly the writers have too – I won't disclose what they do to try and solve this problem but it doesn't work and goes against nearly every rule of story-telling. Otherwise, the script is as basic as ever; the quality of these films has decreased with every sequel despite a promising beginning. The dialogue is embarrassingly simple, with laughable conversations with predictable outcomes. Not all of this is down to the script-writers however; Meyer must take some of the blame too. Sometimes you can visibly see the actors – particularly Robert Pattinson – cringing at the dialogue. The make-up always seems to get worse as these films continue - this last film saw the worst from the make-up department with the vampires clearly sticking out like sore thumbs caked in white make-up with odd contact lenses...aren't they supposed to look spectacularly hot?
A lot of the actors have out-done themselves in terrible acting here. Kristen Stewart was hilarious and embarrassing. In particular, scenes where she is 'angry' she looks like she's having a bowel movement and scenes where she is supposed to be motherly and instead looks to be made of stone – I will note that the creepy CGI baby would have been difficult to work with. The CGI child was a bizarre choice and looked awful. Robert Pattinson did his best but still fell flat here; his future career looks promising though. Taylor Lautner does not have a major role here but is terrible all the same. Some of the new characters such as Lee Pace's Garrett were good additions to the cast and Michael Sheen was also great except from an odd scene where he laughs in such a bizarre way – if you've seen the film you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Overall, this is a disappointing end to a disappointing franchise – there are some sparks of talent here but it is mostly the same old dull dialogue and acting.