Beautiful (but a bit long)

Rating: 9/10 (22 November 2009)

The music, cinematography, acting, and dialog were wonderful. I enjoyed a complete lack of "Hollywood banality". It was all believable. It pulled you in. However, I found the movie to be a bit long. I think it was really two movies. The first movie was her finding out what he was and them working it out. The second movie was a standard good cop vs. bad cop action movie, with vampires instead of cops. The first movie was done differently from anything I had ever seen before and was very exciting. The second movie was standard fare and therefore less exciting. I have not read the books. Perhaps when you start making a series of movies from a book series, the movies tend to be long. The Lord of the Rings movies were. In summary, a bit long, but beautifully done, in fact a work of art.