Not Great But It Has Something

Rating: 6/10 (12 June 2009)

Spoiler Alert The movie is similar to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode of "Angel" from the first season. We have the good vampire and the evil vampire that kills in the town. The good vampire is suspected of the killings and the good vampires helps the female lead when the evil vampire is trying to kill her. All these concepts are in that Buffy story and retold in this one. Some differences, Edward Cullen is faster than Angel, has skin like diamonds, has a family of Vampires and, of course, Buffy is much different than Bella. I though Pattinson was made to look like the Joker, without green hair. I have been little interested in watching more of Kristen Stewart who plays Bella since I saw this. But her unenthused, monotone delivery is quite distracting, so I didn't bother.
What the movie has is a good Director, Catherine Hardwick and a good cinematographer, Elliot Davis. The scenes for Bella's Lullaby are visually stunning. The scene where Bella first sees Edward sitting in the class and then walks in front of a fan, is also a little stunning, especially because of the sinister music that plays in it. The fight scene near the end, they managed to make Edward look kind of intimidating while he was struggling with the other vampire (if you can imagine a 130 pound or so guy as intimidating). If you have some spare time it is worth a view for camera work and directing.