Much much better than the 1st two - so thats almost a good film!!

Rating: 7/10 (1 July 2010)

OK first off I hate the whole Twilight thing - every single little piece about it. I don't know why everyone likes its. Don't understand why people read the books (they are terrible, predictable and badly written) etc etc etc. I have however been dragged to the first 2 movies which I hated with a passion because if you hadn't read the books the movies make no real sense.
And boy was I looking forward to Eclipse....................
After the first 2 movies I had put in certain precautions with the wife to make this a win win situation.......... ;) Anyways, I sat down, and started watching.......someone randomly gets attacked by fast moving attacker and is left to die......OK that was pretty cool for a change Then we have the mountain side fly by I look at my watch 00:12. Christ this is gonna be a loooooooooong film. And we get straight into the looooooong dialogues I look at my watch after what feels like 20minutes 00:14 oh dear god..........
**SHOCK** Hold on what happened........I just laughed at something someone said?!?! No that cant be right. Hold on was that an actual different facial expression from Kristen Stewart. So in the first 20minutes i had seen 2 things I hadnt previously seen, acting and someone making the script bearable! The next couple of hours then play out to, compared with the rest, a pretty good film. If you can excuse the poor dialogue pulled straight from the book the action and movie itself is really good. I was able to follow everything without needing my wife to interpret things that were missed from the book. The characters felt far more alive (excuse the pun) and had personality. The acting was 100x better. Again, if you can excuse the corny dialogues this is a good film. If they took out 90% of the kissing scenes (most were irrelevant to story or plot) and spent more time writing the script rather than pulling chunks out the book this would have actually been a REALLY good movie. Instead you feel embarrassed by the long kissing scenes and groan at some of the tacky script.
But big thumbs up from a Twilight hater - we actually had a watchable movie from the franchise. This, however, is probably too little too late as seen by most the reviews here peoples judgement is clouded or they just didn't bother after the 2 first disaster films