Suffers from what the previous movies had left for them to work with

Rating: 5/10 (27 September 2010)

More action and fantasy is put into this installment than the previous ones and it helps the series go towards it's right direction however again, the romance outweighs the fantasy elements. It's not the romance that's the problem but the fantasy is uncreative and there are so many one-liners that I can nitpick.
The story vaguely progressed since the last film. It's plot is actually a combination of the first film's plot and the second film's plot. Jacob and Edward are still fighting over Bella and a vampire is after Bella again. To make it more interesting though, Victoria creates an army of new born vampires to eliminate Bella while Edward and Jacob form an alliance to protect Bella.
The acting is okay. The actors can't be criticized when they aren't given a lot to work with in the first place. The worst character in this film is undoubtedly Jasper. His character is supposed to be the veteran warrior who teaches other vampires to fight but he comes off so cheesy, I found to dislike him. Dialogue is the main problem here.
This film tries to make things overly dramatic all the time. There are too many unnecessary kissing scenes. It's probably more than Twilight and New Moon combined. Also this movie stretches scenes to take up screen time when it could be done quicker.
The action is definitely better. While the previous movies lacked a hell lot of action, this one doesn't. This one lacks just a bit. The action scale increased because it's actually a battle rather than a combat this time. However the fight between Edward and Victoria ends so abruptly and the battle is in favor of Edward most of the time and even when it's not, it's not that suspenseful. Overall it is an improvement so hats off to the director.
Now about the creativity. It's a shame how an uncreative book has to bring down the movie based upon it but it happens. Eclipse is a primary example. Hell, the whole Twilight series is an example. None of the creatures in the Twilight series offer fantasy elements. All their powers are randomly put together without explanation. There's no explanation to why the Vampires have special powers. They're just there to fulfill the genre of fantasy. Which I guess it does but it's so uncreative.
The CG for the werewolves are terrible once again. They look like they're from video games. The rest are good. I liked how this film depicts Vampires' death. They break apart into ice and that was cool to look at.
Eclipse improved since the last two but there are so many problems in the previous entries that the movie is still a bunch of flaws.
Rating:
★★☆☆☆ Insufficient