ONE good movie in this saga, is that too much to ask?

Rating: 3/10 (29 October 2010)

This is by far the best of the three Twilight-movies yet released. It's more amusing and nicer shot than it's prequels. But is it good? Nah. The Twilight movies are actually something as unusual as book adaptions so bad, they've made me dislike the books. And I used to LIKE the books.
But regarding "Eclipse": It depicts Victoria's attempt at getting revenge on the Cullens, by creating her own personal vampire army (or at least platoon), but the main focus is on Jacob and Edward, trying to out-do and outplay each other like hormonal little teenagers, all in the quest for Bella's love. Don't ask me why, 'cause I honestly can't fathom why anyone would like this girl. It's funny, but fact is, Jacob acts like a brat, and don't expect movie-Edward to be anything like novel-Edward. This is not the strong, secure 100+-year-old vampire from the books, but a mopey, uncertain tween, that has me wondering just what about him is supposed to be attracting to us. I can't help thinking that a guy who still hasn't gotten over the self-consciousness issues at 100+ years, probably won't ever. He's supposedly telepathic and very fast, but has now managed to get his ass somewhat to completely handed to him in 3 out of 3 movies, so this guy is clearly not fit to protect anyone either. If he was all standing between me and danger, I'd arm myself to my teeth or run like hell.
Our female protagonist (also my main issue with this franchise) – though she does a better job in this movie than in the prequels - is still pretty much a hollow, emotionless shell, with less of a personality than my laptop. I can't see "Bella" anywhere, just Kristen Stewart failing to act. This is an "actress" with a range of 2-3 facial expressions; I prefer to describe them as bored and vacant, while my male friends consider her to look perpetually stupid and horny. Maybe that's why they like her...
The rest of the cast do a decent enough job, we're given some new insights to some of the Cullen family members, but the action is quite boring, and the decision to make the vampires fully mobile while whole, but made of stone when broken, is rather incomprehensible, and makes them seem like porcelain dolls; fragile and very, very breakable. The first movie states that the only way to kill them is to rip them apart and burn the pieces, but in this movie, they just break into a heap of stone shards. How they manage to burn is beyond me. Heck, how they manage to MOVE is beyond me.
As a tween sort of high school-comedy, Eclipse works. It'll even have you laughing at some points. But it doesn't really work as anything else.