Better than the first one but not good enough

Rating: 5/10 (19 November 2009)

I'll just start by saying that this movie offers some major improvements from the last movie. You can see that they were working with a bigger budget because they have better special effects. It is a good thing that they had a bigger budget considering that it was going to be tricky to do the transformation from human to werewolf. However, there are still a few cheap looking special effects but nothing major. The sparkly vampire effect could have been better as well as the people cliff diving but like I said it wasn't major.
The soundtrack its pretty good. All the music seems to go along with the scenes.
However, as good as these things are some things are lacking. The major problem that I had was that the two main actors, Robert Patterson and Kristen Steward,do not know how to act. What should have been a very emotional movie in the sense that we could see and sense the pain that they are going through by not being together, there wasn't. Kristen just always seemed to have the same facial expression be it when she was supposed to be sad or happy. I just never felt the emotions that she was supposed to convey. Robert seemed to do a better job but it wasn't much better. To me, he is more eye candy than actor. The director certainly didn't help his main actors to hide these flaws, most of the scenes have close ups to the face and I would get it if there was some emotional facial expression to be conveyed but like I stated earlier, there wasn't and makes these flaws more noticeable.
However, the rest of the cast seemed to act well. I was surprised that Taylor seemed a better actor than I thought. He conveyed most of the emotions that Jacob was supposed to be feeling well. He did seem to have a lot of shirtless scenes in the movie but if one reads the book, it sort of seems understandable. The movie was entertaining even if it was corny. The Volturi were freaky specially Michael Sheen. I think they made good casting choices from what you could see.
To the fans of the Twilight Saga, you will not be disappointed. To those that are not,do not spend eight dollars on it and just wait either for the dollar theater or DVD. Give it a 5/10