D-... Must do better....

Rating: 3/10 (8 December 2009)

I was so looking forward to this movie, I was counting down the days - catching trailers where I could, I thinking how many times I could see it but I could only manage the one viewing because, and it burns me to say it, but I didn't like it...AT ALL. I loved Twilight, I've lost count the amount of times I've seen it and it never gets boring. Yes it was low budget (who can forget the mop on Taylor Lautners head), but those kind of things never detracted from the story or the smooth flow of the movie. New Moon was such an anti-climax. It's clearly a rushed movie, the studios would have still made just as much money and we (the fans) would have gotten the movie we deserved, if they had been patient enough to let Catherine Hardwick have more time as she'd asked. I've no doubting Chris Weitz's ability as a director but there was something missing in New Moon, there was no passion/emotion, no flow, no time to reconnect with the characters, it was all very matter of fact and came off as some choppy wannabe action movie, with a bit of popcorn romance randomly thrown in. Director continuity is sometimes as important as all the other elements - look at the success of the 'Bourne Supremacy & Ultimatum' Also, maybe take a tip from those movies and have a kind of recap or references to how they came to this point in time, at the start or somewhere in the film, - In New Moon there was no connecting bridge from the first movie - it just jumped in and took off, and ended just as abruptly. The CGI was impressive but it was just cringeworthy to watch, the acting overall was far worse than Twilight - the only sigh of relief was when I realised Michael Sheen was one of the volturi...a brief glimpse of a real moment of acting. Unfortunately, I believe that 'Eclipse' is already in the 'can' so no chance of getting Catherine back, all I can ask is that the editing is a bit more considerate of the storyline this time.