Better than expected

Rating: 7/10 (21 November 2012)

First, this is the Twilight saga, so the criticism I've seen seems to generate mostly from guys who wouldn't like chic flicks anyway.
As a husband, I dutifully took my wife to this last installment, not exactly thrilled at the idea, but figuring it would have to be better than the part 1, which left out many of the key ingredients that my wife enjoyed in the book.
I found this a much faster paced movie and the ending seemed to have been engineered mostly for the male audience. The characters were a little more animated and easier to watch.
On the negative side, if I hadn't had my wife to fill me in on a few details I wouldn't have understood some of the motives ... such as most of the battle at the end was over Alice, and not the newborn half-ling.
In all, I thought, from a guy's perspective, this was equal to Eclipse.