Catherine Hardwicke Ruins Another Movie

Rating: 1/10 (20 November 2008)

What can one say at the complete lack of talent that Catherine Hardwicke has manifested throughout her career?
Twilight is no exception.
The entire movie is dedicated to the task of making Catherine Hardwicke appear "cool" to her Hollywood mentors.
She still can't shoot anything properly, electing time and again to shake the camera when she doesn't know what to do with it and her skills at selecting editing choices is still completely below par, again trying to appear "hip" instead of trying to achieve quality.
Worse than in her previous films is the casting. At least her early films had some good actors in them. Twilight is peopled with dead-eyed model-types who clearly had to have slept through their acting classes. Of course, there is little doubt they were selected because they looked "cool", which is the modus operandi of Ms. Hardwicke.
As long as Hollywood will keep throwing money at this bad director, it will continue to be in deep trouble.