If you liked the book (or books), you'll be slightly disappointed.

Rating: 6/10 (19 March 2009)

I gotta start by saying that if you didn't enjoyed the books, or even heard of them, this movie is not for you, of course you should give it a shot, but you have been warned. This is NOT Interview with the vampire, it's not epic, and it will most certainly NOT going to be a revelation within the vampire universe. Well, at least not this one, but as far as the story goes, up till the end, I wouldn't bet on it.
However, if you read the books, or at least Twilight (though I think it goes without saying that if you enjoyed Twilight, you read the others too), but you're not blindly obsessed with them up to the point when you can't think rationally, you'll be a bit disappointed. I sure was.
And I'm not talking about acting. Rob did a decent job at portraying the troubled young vampire, though some scenes looked overly awkward, when they were not supposed to. Kristen, well if you've seen any previous movies of her, you'll notice that she has a pattern, which contains few basic facial expressions (mostly sad-wise, she's known for drama), which luckily for her, it's a good thing here, because Bella it's not the 'happy go wild' type. The others were pretty good too, I especially liked how Ashley gave life to her character, Alice, couldn't possibly imagine her otherwise. Locations were pretty accurate too, Catherine did a good job at both choosing them and directing, though she definitely works too much, she looks tired all the time.
Nevertheless, my one and most complaint would be that they left out some key elements from the book, or in some cases, even worse, they changed them. That's the biggest problem with books becoming movies, though of course, for the young mindless fans out there, it didn't matter that much or not at all.
So what I can say is that this movie is more of a reference point. If you haven't read the books, but through some miracle you enjoyed the movie even a bit, you should read them, it's far more easily now that you have a face for everyone and glimpses of the way characters would act, and the books are far better, well at least Twilight for now.