Leaps and bounds above the first two films

Rating: Null/10 (13 November 2011)

This film shocked me and when I say shocked me I mean wowwwww!!!! This was a decent movie. To some it was even worse a movie because they are of the a.d.d generation and have no right reviewing something if they don't have an understanding and appreciation for the art of filmmaking! This film had a stronger story than the first two combined, the acting was much improved, though still very dramatic ala Gothic soap opera. Kristen was very much there emotionally and seemed more grown up and less self centered. Robert Pattinson provided an intensity that allowed chemistry to be more believable and relevant for the two lovers. I gotta hand it to David Slade. I think he did the best who could to pick up the pieces that were so amateurishly, lazily, slopped around by the previous two directors who obviously had no artistic dedication to the series. Those directors were the evil genius masterminds who knew they would make a ton of money and didn't have to make good a movie to do so. Those fainting screaming girls just want to see their characters visibly on screen and it didn't matter to them if the movies were actually seriously respectable. But David Slade is an aspiring filmmaker with a respect for the art as seen in his debut Hard Candy. He really did try to use the clicheeeeeeeeeeee driven writing of Stephanie Meyer and make something special out of it all. And he succeeds more than fails! Eclipse is not a perfect movie but It gives a bit of hope for those true film lovers who are in the know of how trashy the series has been handled, the hope for those fans that are still curious as to where the finale will go, that maybe, just maybe, fourth time is a charm and it will all end with a BANGGG!!!! But do we usually allow more than three strikes??? We shall see!