A bad script to a clichÃ©' story with very mediocre actors (especially Stewart) and filled with unmotivated camera angles, dreary dialogue and lame villains.

Rating: 3/10 (28 April 2009)

I have to say I went on to view this film with very little expectations of actually thinking it was going to be good, based on all the ridiculous hype it was receiving mostly from young teenage girls and the fact that the plot and theme looked all around uninteresting to me.
The first 20 minutes play out in a general new girl in town, getting used to everything conventional way.. she meets some friends who know some information on the school and therefore point her in the right direction to pursue a character (male) who will go onto become the trail for the plot... yeah it's generic but the setup was at least enough to keep me still interested....
We paddle around for another 20 minutes to inevitably get to a scene where Edward the guy reveals he's a vampire to the girl and at this point the script goes into complete preposterous avenues.... dialogue so ridiculous I was going on to have spasms and cringe from the words being said... Things seem very unnatural and merely written just to move the story along.
At this point I basically lost all faith in the film and I got to say it goes downhill from there. The plot sets up some very uninteresting villains and leads up to a very mediocre climax. Now I know this is an adaptation for a book and maybe it was all a lot more interesting to read rather than watch because I was bored in some spots and still choking down the awful script.
It's a bad sign when I have to look down at the DVD player and see how far in the picture is.. and chanting in my mind "when is this going to end"... The movie also seems to drag on for a numbing extra unneeded 10 or 15 minutes..
Overall: A bad script to a clichÃ©' story with very mediocre actors (especially Stewart) and filled with unmotivated camera angles, dreary dialogue and lame villains.