Let's Be Fair

Rating: 9/10 (29 November 2009)

Obviously there are lovers and haters of this movie. I'm rating not as a stand alone movie based on it's own script but as a movie that is meant to portray the existing book. I have read all the books, and New Moon was my least favorite of the 4, but this movie portrays the book very well. So good job everyone, mission accomplished, but if this was a stand alone movie it wouldn't fly.
I think where we lose some people is in the "unfathomable" idea of soulmates and the illogical passion and decisions etc that go along with that. Obviously Jake is better for Bella, but she's already in love with Edward. The one big thing this series on film is missing is the pure chemistry between Edward and Bella, and more insight into "Edward the tortured vampire". The latter was better with this film. As others have mentioned, the chemistry between Bella and Jake was better in this one. But most complaints on the movie I've read are because the film was too close to the book... can't help it if Stephenie Meyer wrote it that way. If you don't like the books why are you seeing the movie? All in all, much better than the first one. I think it suffers just because the setup of the first movie wasn't as strong as it should have been (everyone should be strongly Team Edward with book 1).