An honest, unbiased, and most importantly MATURE review

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2010)

OK, as of now this film has just under 6,000 votes here on IMDb and nearly half of those are 1 star. What does that tell you? I'm sure you can probably guess that virtually all of these come from those who spend their time hating Twilight and want to rate it bad because.....well I don't know why. They hate everything associated with it, including the actors, and not least of all Twilight fans. Seems a waste of time to me. Why would you spend valuable time with something that you don't like? Wouldn't your time be better spent IMDb'ing movies you actually enjoy? Why some people are so hell bent on ridiculing Twilight fans, I'll never know. Does it somehow hurt their quality of life if people are in love with the Twilight series? I doubt it. They need to get over it and move on.
Anyhow the film: From a technical standpoint it's far superior to the 1st and 2nd installment. But then that's to be expected. The kinks have been worked out by this point, and the mass popularity of the franchise has enabled the creators to get the best crew members. I was delighted to see how the special fx have grown since the first film; like night and day. As far as the storyline I don't think it would be fair to give all the credit to the director and screenwriters and director of cinematography. I mean after all, the Eclipse plot is the most exciting of the 4 so it's almost inevitable that the film will be more entertaining than the others.
As far as acting goes, the principle players have gotten marginally better. Kristin Stewarts constipated stuttering leaves a lot to be desired. I've seen her in other films where she's a perfectly decent actress so I'm guessing she interpreted this aspect literally from the book. I don't hold it against her. Robert Pattinson hasn't gotten a lot to work with in any of the films, but after having seen his other film Remember Me, I know that he's got some good acting skills in there; it's just the material at fault here.
I've read all 4 installments of Stephenie Meyers' saga, and I truly enjoyed the books. Compared to them the films are definitely subpar but not altogether unenjoyable. Twilight was pretty good, New Moon wasn't good at all, but then again the book was sort of slow as well. Eclipse is better than both of them.
If you're a fan of either, I predict Eclipse will be your favorite one.