Good for its world building, bad for itself

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2019)

Bella Swan, a seventeen year-old high school student moves to the state of Washington to her father after her mother marries a baseball player who travels a lot. Soon she gets to know the mysterious powers of Edward Cullen, her all-but-normal classmate. And so it all begins.
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wilight is a very slow movie. It does a lot of world building and establishes the main characters of the saga, I understand that. I never read the books by Stephanie Meyer and I guess there are probably more dialogues in the book and Bella expressing her feelings in her thoughts. Just some things that are hard to transfer into a movie.
What makes the film even slower than it is, are the long but slow dialogues. I don't think they work very well. At least I couldn't really feel the attraction between them, all I saw were some teenagers awkwardly trying to talk to each other. The special effects are ok but I think that - especially in the ending scene - they could have polished the effects a little bit more. The casting is good. The one that in my opinion fits most into his role is Carlisle Cullen.
Twilight is a set-up movie for this world and in that regard it does well. But otherwise it's just very slow and at some points even boring.