It's really sad that the series was ever so popular!

Rating: 3/10 (6 December 2012)

'THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2': One and a Half Stars (Out of Five)
I've never been a fan of the 'TWILIGHT' series; I've seen every chapter, but only so I could review them (because of their immense popularity). I've always thought the series was really poorly made, but I can handle bad movies, the thing I really despised about each film is how tasteless and morally depraved they all are. They send horrible messages to their target audience, young girls, and are extremely sexist to both women and men. The heroine, Bella (played by Kristen Stewart throughout the series), is a terrible role model for young women; she's weak, obsessive and totally dependent on men (to the point where she's suicidal if one breaks up with her). The films also kind of sends the message that every girl wants two cute guys to fight over her and all women look for in a romantic love interest is a guy that looks good (and that no other redeemable qualities are necessary). While Bella at least has some character and admirable skills the leading men in the series are both emotionless, wooden and completely lacking of any wit or charm. With that said this film does finally give viewers a heroine worth rooting for; Bella in this film is finally strong and self dependent. It does kind of send the message that a woman has to become a vampire in order to become those things though. The film is a little more entertaining than the rest but it's so full of flaws (once again) and just extreme trash filmmaking (to put it simply). It's really sad that the series was ever so popular.
The film is the fifth and final installment in the franchise and is based on the second half of Stephenie Meyer's fourth book. It was directed by Bill Condon (who also directed the last film in the series) and written by Melissa Rosenberg once again (she wrote all five films and appears to be just as bad a writer as Meyers (having improved nothing on the awful books). It once again stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner as the three leads and has most of the key supporting players returning from the other films as well. In this film Bella (Stewart) has just awoken to discover her new powers as a vampire and meets her newborn daughter Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy), who is a gifted half vampire / half human creature (who ages extremely fast). She also learns that her werewolf buddy Jacob (Lautner), who used to be obsessed with her, has now dedicated his love to her baby (in order to save her from being killed by other werewolves). Bella, understandably, does not take kindly to the idea of her ex-stalker now agreeing to spend the rest of his life with her newborn baby. More problems arise when the kid is mistaken for an immortal child and the Volturi (the vampire ruling class) decides to execute her. Edward (Pattinson) and his family of vampires then raise an army of their own (from old vampire friends) to combat the Volturi.
The film is more of the same cheesy dialogue, acting and atrocious romance but it does have more action than the other films. This one has a gruesome climactic battle scene that proves the motion picture rating system is a joke. If a film with as many beheadings, body burnings and other violent mutilations as this can get away with a PG-13 rating obviously any studio (with enough money) can buy the rating they want for any film. While the movie does have a somewhat cool final fight scene and a newly improved kick ass heroine it still reeks of horrible flaws. One I especially didn't like is a major plot twist at the end that feels extremely overdone, cheep and a total rip-off (but that's to be expected from a series like this). Fans of the franchise will once again eat it up and anyone else (who has to see it) will be extremely sickened.
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