Holy Crap, This Movie Sucks!

Rating: 3/10 (22 April 2009)

I am amazed that this movie is as big a piece of crap as I expected. I really didn't think it was possible, and figured I was extremely underestimating it. I really had no plans to see it, since the vampire movie (in my opinion) was done as well as it could ever be by Francis Ford Coppola (although Keanu Reeves was terribly miscast) in "Bram Stoker's Dracula". However, I walked into my Mom's office yesterday and saw the book on her hotlist and decided I had to see what the hype was about.
Robert Pattinson is this movie's only saving grace. I don't think he's a "great" actor, or that the script was anything to work with, but he's the reason I didn't turn it off after 10 minutes.
Kristen Stewart is absolutely horrible. I know it's not the source material, because she sucked in "Into the Wild" as well - looking like a tweaker-freak who is too spun to get the words out of her mouth, completely emotionless and acting only as if she'd rather be anywhere else.
This script sucks, and hard. The direction is a joke and the visual effects are only one step up from the SciFi channel movies.
Seeing it now, I think the only thing that may have saved this franchise is the replacement of the director, Catherine Hardwicke. And, it's kind of sad, because I think a visionary director might have been able to save this movie ... but then again, maybe not.