Sorry, but not good enough

Rating: 3/10 (10 March 2010)

You do not have to be in the target audience of a film to be able to evaluate it. And this film - sorry, but is just not good enough.
At first I thought that the acting was very bad, but then I realised: you cannot really expect much of an actor to do, if the plot is full of shallow clichés. But what is more important - the general direction of the plot just does not cut it (and I guess that is more a problem of the book). Are we really expected to be passionate about heroes that are making unnatural choices? The film did not provide a problem/paradox that I would be dying to find out how the heroes cope with, and sorry - you cannot have a story without that. It is not enough just to have nice art and cinematography (which was actually very good, indeed). The film did not have any tempo to it(though, that is an often thing for an adaptation of a famous book, where you need to include a lot of details that do not benefit the film).
I have to admit that I was not a huge fan of Twilight 1, which I saw just as an average film, but after seeing the terrible reviews of New Moon I thought: "It cannot be that bad!" Well, that is exactly what it is. Sure, the fans of the book will see it, and some will also enjoy it even, perhaps. But if you are not a fan - do not watch it, as then it is just a waste of time.