A slight improvement over the first two, but still pretty bad

Rating: 3/10 (17 June 2018)

Ofcourse it is no secret that The Twilight Saga is not one of cinema's finest forthbringings, as its first two films are some of the worst examples of acting/writing you will ever see, and while Eclipse might not be much better, atleast the unintentional comedy finally seems kept to a minimum this time. ( Yes, there are still unintentionally comically bad moments, but not so many as previous ones )
The main reason that this one still towers over its terrible predecessors is because of the fact that we are actually given some insight to backstories of some of the Cullen's, such as that story about one of them being a confederate soldier or the one by that blonde Cullen woman ( I forget a lot of the Cullen's names as their characters were not very memorable ). The cinematography is a bit better than its predecessors too, yet we can still notice a lot of actual wideshots ( Such as the one in the mountains ) was greenscreened and therefore didn't quite look as great as it would have like to have been. Tension is a bit better than in the previous ones too with the story about the newborn army, but since this is kind of like a kids franchise we know none of the good guys are probably going to get hurt, and if they do, why should we even care? The people displayed here do not talk and act like actual people, and therefore an emotional connection cannot be made.
The love triangle between Bella, Edward & Jacob is starting to become ridiculous. Ofcourse, i don't quite understand what anyone could see in Bella who always has just one facial expression, but Jacob's & Edward's fighting over her borderline on the comical. Seriously, who would fight over a inhuman emotionless dead inside kind of girl like Bella? The screenplay might be a little bit better, but still it mostly consists of your typical Twilight conversations like: 'You love him', 'I love you more', yeah these types of clichés are what your general Twilight screenplay consists of most of the time. It might have less unintional comedy, but let us not forget the AMAZING scene with Bella and her father when she admits she is a virgin. The sheer inhuman and unnatural acting by Kristen Stewart will make you laugh out loud at this point, but at least it was kept to a minimum this time.
The acting by the three main characters is once again terrible. I reckon even if you get these actors to play on a film with an actual good script, they will still blow it with their delivery. Lautner might be slightly better than Pattinson and Pattinson slightly better than Stewart, but all three of them have non existent acting talents. It baffles me that especially Stewart is still somehow getting work, whose constant sighing makes it look like she is extremely nervous everytime she has to film a scene. I mean, i get that David Fincher cast her in Panic Room as the spoiled annoying little brat because she wasn't known at the time, but people who still cast her should know better. There is just no argument you can give in her favor when it comes down to acting. The sighing, hair touching, head shaking, eye contact evasing, open mouthing, deadened line deliveries & the list goes on. Like a robot sent from Mars to act on Earth, that is really what her style comes down to.
While it is a bit better than its predecessors due to the fact that it had a couple of backstories which took the focus off Bella ( Who is a TERRIBLE character ), it is still a Twilight film featuring Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson, and this alone still makes sure it is a mediocre mess.