The work of the director, plus the actors and the presence of the author got to the making of a great film

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2010)

In my opinion, the book of the film is my least favorite. I don't like that much seeing the love triangle. But the movie is a lot better than I expected. Xavier Samuel did an amazing job with Riley. He has future. I think actors have been getting better from film to film and this one just arrived at the top. Robert Pattinson evolved a lot from Twilight to now and he did one so great job that when I was looking at the screen I couldn't even see Robert, I only saw Edward Cullen. Obviously, makeup and special effects were better too, but the wolves! Oh my god, if they weren't much better! This wasn't any Avatar, clearly, but from what David Slade could do with the book... That director did an amazing job. I think he will win some kind of award some day for a film he will have directed. He really knows how things should work. What to put in the film, what to cut from the book even with the screenwriter having to do some of that work. That was an explendid movie. Blew my mind up from what I was expecting, really. David Slade has much more of a brain than Catherine Hardwicke or Chris Weitz have... And the thing is that Stephenie Meyer actually was present at the shoots most of the time, so I guess that was as important as the director's vision. But really, better than ever!