Movie OK - but not exceptional

Rating: 7/10 (23 November 2012)

CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! For the most part, since I have read the books and seen all the movies, I understood what was being placed on the screen, but this movies flow is quite disjointed. It seemed as if the primary concern of the editors was to keep the two parts of Breaking Dawn under 2 hrs, so they cut back very considerably on developing a story and the tons of additional characters that had about 30sec of screen time, and seemed to be in a mad rush for the finish line. I found it to be entertaining, but as a "purist" I had one really big issue with this movie when placed in context of all the other films. Alice is not supposed to be able to see werewolves in her visions to the point that their presence acts like a radar jammer even when she is not trying to see THEM. In this movie they threw that "fact" completely out the window. The result was fun to watch but created what I consider a very large logical disconnect with the overall storyline of the series.