Fatally Dull

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2010)

I enjoyed the first movie. It wasn't great, but it was entertaining. So I rented NEW MOON.
Within two minutes, I knew I'd made a mistake. Some movies start slow, but this one starts just plain boring. It's like watching ketchup ooze out of a bottle.
I stuck with it for an hour, but within 15 minutes I was reading reviews on the IMDb on my cell phone, as I needed something to do to kill time while I was waiting for the picture to be over. Finally I decided there was no point in waiting and shut it off. The prospect of another 90 minutes of this abyssal ooze was too daunting to even consider.
It's not like I have to have wall-to-wall action. Some of my favorite films are "deliberately paced." What I do need is some kind of a plot, or interesting characters, or something other than terminally brooding teenagers gazing vacantly into space.
Yes, I was a brooding teenager once, but that doesn't necessarily put me off in a movie. What does put me off is being bored.
Perhaps fans of the books will find something of interest, but as entertainment, this film is rock-bottom.