An honest and professional review

Rating: 1/10 (12 December 2012)

By saying I was disappointed with this film is an understatement. This movie had potential. It had some good villains (Volturi) and an interesting premise (violating vampire law by creating an immortal child) and some background on the premise (immortal children are uncontrolable as proved in the past). A fellow vampire sees Bella and Edward's daughter and reports them to the Volturi. The Volturi then set out to deal with the situation. Bella and Edward are made aware of the Volturi's awareness and seek out witnesses to certify that Bella and Edward's child was born and not an immortal child. In short, the defense is gathering evidence as in a court of law. All of this makes sense however the problem we encounter is how it was all presented in the film. I've been able to summarize the plot in a paragraph and in a film it should been summarized in around 10-15 minutes. This is not the case, the pacing of the film leaves a great deal to be desired. Nothing much except for filler material happens for the first hour or so. Kristen Stewart's acting is dry as in all the Twilight films. Edward is so stiff that he reminds me of the character Data from Star Trek the Next Generation. Jacob is the only character who has some emotion. The most disappointing aspect of the film has to be the last 30 minutes. Here we are treated with a good battle between good and evil. I admit the battle was tense. Around 70% of the cast dies off. However there issues with the battle that turned me off completely. The first is, that one of the "Good" Vampires takes his fist out and creates a fissure in the ground that swallows up the vampires on the battlefield. From a military standpoint that action from this vampire was ludicrous because he ends up killing most of his friends in the process and very few Volturi. The second, the Volturi, especially the three Elders were such wimps. For being as powerful as they say they are, they all died very easily. The blond one, Cauis was killed in about 3 seconds, the tall one Marcus, was killed so fast that I don't even know how he died, I saw two vampires run at him and then he was dead. Aro, fought with Edward and Bella for about 10 seconds until they lopped his head off like a doll. To top it all off the entire battle sequence was just a vision. When this twist came about I felt robbed because it felt that the battle sequence was just included in the film to add some tension in an otherwise slow paced film. In short, I can't see why other than trying to rack in as much money as possible, why Breaking Dawn was split into two films. The entire battle scene could have been ommitted in the film. If the battle scene wasn't a vision and actual reality along with the Volturi putting up more of a fight I feel this movie could have been much better received. As it stands, it will only barely be enjoyed by Twilight fans.