This was a major disappointment. (might contain spoilers

Rating: 4/10 (30 November 2008)

Yesterday I finally got to see the Twilight film, and came out of the theater wishing I never did.
I tried to look at it as if I never heard of Twilight at all. Sadfully, from the get go my mind immediately started reminding me of all the things that are just plain wrong in this film. Little and not so little details that could have made things so much better.
The romantic story was rushed. Twilight is all about the romance between Edward and Bella, and the trouble that romance brings. Yet I feel that their blooming love was rushed in order to have enough time left in the film for the threat that is James, the vampire bad guy and hunter extraordinaire.
The editing in this film is easily some of the worst I've seen in a good long time. many scenes are just cut off, to be replaced by the next and take away the flow of the film.
I know it's an adaptation of a book. And that's always a hard thing to do. Some things need to be left out or changed in order for a film to work. But there are some scenes I feel, they shouldn't have done the way they have. I.E. The meadow scene. Twilighters will know which one I mean.
Knowing this was a fairly low-budget production, I can forgive some of the visual effects, But don't expect to be seeing any high end stuff here. To the production team: Normal movement, or even slow-mo, combined with a blurry effect looking like it was created in photoshop does not make something look like it's going fast, it just makes it look cheap.
There are some good things about this movie. The chemistry between the two leads is great and had me captivated each time. Most of the support characters are decent as well. Some of my favorites being Michael Welch's part as typical teen Mike Newton and Nikki Reed's depiction of Rosalie hale, Edward's "sister" in the little vampire family.
The scenes between the lead characters are highly entertaining. But the film fails to deliver the same amount of tension and suspense that the books do. There are too many sudden stops to the scenes for that.
Lastly, the writing could and should have been much better. I cringed at quite a few lines, which tried to be adaptations of the lines in the book. If they're planning a sequel I can say only one thing about this: Some lines are memorable, and great. Changing them and sometimes the context in which they are said is bad, okay? Overall, twilight was an okay film, with bad writing, poor editing and at times it was poorly directed. Fans should see it, and they will but I wouldn't recommend this one.