Twilight was enjoyable, a good interpretation of an otherwise average novel, but had no character development which was a major part of the original story.

Rating: 6/10 (13 December 2008)

I saw Twilight on the day of it's release in Australia. My hopes were high for this film which was already under much scrutiny, which had me worried. I went into the cinema with an open mind and I think that caused me to not be so utterly disappointed. Twilight was an overall enjoyable film and I think that Catherine Hardwicke did well with the material she had. I think that major downfall, lack of character development, would most likely have been caused by the screen writer Melissa Rosenberg. Characters that had seemed important in the novel became lost in the action dominated plot. I think this is where the film really fell. Also, unlike Catherine Hardwicke's other films, such as Thirteen, there was very little dialogue in Twilight, again this would have been caused by the screenwriter. This was the major cause of the poor character development. This major flaw in the film caused the many of the events in the film to be completely unbelievable. In the novel, readers were made to believe that vampires really existed and that the love that occurred between the two main characters Edward and Bella could actually happen. I think that the actors did a good job with the material that they had, Robert Pattinson was a perfect choice for the character of Edward, his performance was the most enjoyable in the film, along with Kellan Lutz as Emmet, who made his role extremely humorous as it had been in the novel. Overall Twilight was enjoyable but not the perfect adaption of the original novel by Stephenie Meyer.