Directed by:
Bill CondonScreenplay:
Melissa RosenbergCinematography:
Guillermo NavarroCast:
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Peter Facinelli, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Taylor Lautner, Elizabeth Reaser, Maggie Grace (more)VOD (3)
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In the highly anticipated next chapter of the blockbuster The Twilight Saga, the newfound married bliss of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world. After their wedding, Bella and Edward travel to Rio de Janeiro for their honeymoon, where they finally give in to their passions. Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth, Edward finally fulfills her wish to become immortal. But the arrival of their remarkable daughter, Renesmee, sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens and their allies against the Volturi, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all-out battle. (official distributor synopsis)
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Breaking Dawn – Part 1 is a wildly drawn-out case of milking the franchise and its fans for all they’re worth. In the context of a Twilight marathon with 150 female viewers who love it ironically, it is a wonderful experience (more about that in the review of the first Twilight film). Bonus points for unexpectedly powerful horror throughout the pregnancy storyline.
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Twilight is a big name and I liked the first part. The books are incredibly bad, but the first movie was quite OK. But it went only downhill from there, and the books got even worse. I like how Stephenie Meyer didn’t mince her words and despite knowing that the story would be made into a movie, she decided to write such a brutally crazy ending like in this one. If Breaking Dawn was a single movie, I think I would have been able to handle it, but since it is divided into two parts, I cannot but give it a Boo! review, which is definitely well deserved. You see it’s pretty hard to watch a story in which Bella gets pregnant and the fetus is tearing her belly apart and there are vampires and werewolves circling around her like crazy rabid monkeys and not much else seems to be happening. And if somebody does decide to do something, it usually ends up like this. I hope the ending is a bit more interesting, it seems it will be. But I will now require a couple of months to shake this movie off. I haven’t seen such a terrible movie that takes itself seriously in a long time.
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There is no bias involved. People (and non-people) have the right to fall in love, do mating calls, and act like idiots. But why on earth make four films about it? Film No. 4.5 doesn't build on the insight and punch of Slade’s third film, and unfortunately, it's not even as hilariously goofy as the second. It’s closest to the first film in the series, an immature love tragedy that is appreciated particularly by emotionally immature adolescent girls, who can see themselves in the main character. Moreover, in such a plot-empty film I will ask myself several questions that will probably only be answered by an audience familiar with books. I don't like the saga for its "life attitude," I like it for the naive filmmaking stupidity. However, this is regularly the worst film in the series.
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Oh, that was so ludicrous. Like the movie poster, I guess. (There may be some spoilers here, but it doesn’t matter) Wedding -> honeymoon -> 1st sex -> Eddie doesn't want to anymore -> Bella horny as hell -> begging him to do it to her -> Bimbo knocked up -> everyone wants to kill the kid -> but he gets born and the werewolf falls in love with him. Good thing I know what's coming in the next instalment, I'm the type that read it, too. Oh, isn’t it romantic.
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I like werewolves and vampires, which is why I'm still watching the Twilight saga, for the record. Bella sighs again in the traditional way, for this time she's already sure of her choice of future partner, so this one is a more bearable episode compared to two and three. Everything around it is so similar to the previous parts, and I personally was probably most impressed by the (rather rough) birth scene and the battle between werewolves and vampires. Otherwise I don't see anything else in it, perhaps only the nice soundtrack. In short, I got exactly what I expected, so despite my rating I wasn't totally disappointed with the result.
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