Only 30 minutes of this movie are worth seeing...

Rating: 5/10 (8 April 2010)

I became a Twihard last December. Watched Twilight, loved it because it reminded me about first love and because the screen chemistry between Rob and Kristen was great. You could see they had fun, they enjoyed doing that movie, there was no stress. Probably a little flirt on the side.. Then watched NM. Bella does not show any affection anymore, Edward is telling her how much she means to him, that he would commit suicide if she would die and her reaction is...non existent! No passion, no trembling, just looks at him like a sheep. The beginning and middle of the movie drags on with Bella heartbroken, and ridiculous scenes like Jacob taking his shirt off to wipe her blood (yes, he has a great body I admit but he is already walking around half naked as a werewolf that he is, so no need to overdo it) and Bella overreacting when seeing imaginary Edward (beginner actors do a "Huh" like that when they are surprised, but not a big screen star). Rob plays well,I like his scowl, I admit it and the pain in his voice is real...the only minus is that awful old fashioned suit and the lipstick. Then somehow towards the end the producers realize this is only a 2h movie and suddenly cut to the chase like mad, bam phone call, bam plane, bam yellow Porsche, a bit of love, then a fight (I liked this idea, a bit of action finally, contrary to the book where I would have liked that too), then bam Forks again and everything is fine. No reunion scene, explanations, epiphany. Instead a ridiculous vision of Alice that had me laughing and crying with frustration. Poor Cullens just stand around like pretty statues, while Victoria just runs like mad. Charlie is still managing to do a great job with the few lines they allowed him to have. He is together with the teenagers (Mike, Angela, Jessica and Eric) and Aro (Michael Sheen) the best acting in the movie. Especially Anna Kendrick steals the show and Michael Sheen..aah, you just know when you see a great actor,it just feels so natural. Taylor also impressed me, he acts as natural as he can and his Jacob is coming over as a warmer and kinder Jacob than in the book somehow. Dakota did not impress me in any way, I just noted her shoes and thought of Minnie Mouse, and the red eyes were cute.Alice was Alice, in character as always! The music was OK at the beginning and then just faded, I did not even notice it later on. Overall, I like only 30-45 minutes of this movie: school scene, birthday, car, break-up, meadow Edward, cliff-jump, phone call up up to bedroom. I am a sucker for tragic love stories so the whole Volterra thing I absolutely adored. But the long pauses Rob makes when making the proposal together with the face Bella makes as an answer to that proposal left me a bad after taste, such a bad beginner acting it was. Overall 5 out of 10 because it cut out the really pivotal scenes at the end from the book and put instead ridiculous ones no one cares about (Emily cabin, Alice vision, Volterra glimpse at the beginning, they could cut those out instead of the great B&E car dialog or Victoria scenes that they did cut out and put on DVD). Hope Eclipse is better but I guess with all the media and fans the pressure is just so big to everyone (cast, crew) that out of sheer stress nothing will come out of it..if the cast would be experimented actors there would be no problem, but with young inexperienced actors like that this is way too much.