Kristen Stewart Still Can't Act

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2009)

It was too much to hope that a different director was going to be able to pull an acting performance out of Kristen Stewart. She is a beautiful young woman, which you acknowledge inwardly, but that's all you get for 2 hours. Whatever else she has performed successfully, or not, does not matter. I went to see New Moon, and I wanted to see acting in New Moon.
She has virtually the same expression on her face throughout, which is boring, and that defines her performance: boring. She can't deliver an intelligible line to save her soul, which drove me to distraction in the first movie (the constant blinking tic is gone in this movie, small relief). She still mumbles the ends of too many sentences. If speaking at the speed of light is a skill, that she has. Maybe you have to be a vampire to hear her.
She does serve the purpose of making her male co-stars look better talent-wise, and that gets everyone more excited to see Edward or Jacob in her scenes. However, she brings the movies down, and really makes them less than their potential, which is a real shame because the books held a lot of promise, but they do center around the feelings of Bella, and Kristen Stewart apparently has none that she can deliver, save ennui.