Honest review : Twilight

Rating: 4/10 (4 December 2008)

First of all let me say this, I have read the book, only the first one. I just had to read it, to see what the buzz was all about, why was everyone (female mostly) crazy about it? after reading it I could see why the story was so appealing to most of females. It's quite the love story and I was surprised that I liked it. So like most of the fans of the series I was really looking forward to see the movie. So here it goes: Movie was a real disappointment. First of all, the whole thing looked like a TV special so don't go expecting to see some stylish adaptation. Movie got no style at all and the blame goes to director Catherine Hardwicke, who also directed Thirteen (2003) which was quite good actually. She just couldn't translate the magic of the book into a movie. Most of the small parts were unfortunately miscast like Charlie, Jacob, Jasper and Rosalie. Kristen and Robert did a good job as Bella and Edward, but I have to say that there were couple of scene where they both were laughably bad, I mean the 90% of the people who were watching, couldn't just stop laughing at how horrible some scene was acted and directed. Cinematography by Elliot Davis and Music by Carter Burwell could have been a lot better. There is nothing original about the music and nothing extraordinary about the cinematography. Special effect looking very cheap, "made for TV" written all over it. I know how this sound, but believe there is almost nothing good about this movie.
But I could have lived with all of what I just said except one thing. This movie should have been a Rated R movie or at least a good PG-13, except two scene this movie could have received a PG rating. I understand why they didn't go for R rating, but why not make a real PG-13 like The Dark Knight, why not go all the way. I mean The Dark Knight got away with it, movie looked like a R rating movie. All and all a real disappointment and since the whole crew are returning for the New Moon I don't anything going to change for the second movie.