robert-1853 This movie is the 3rd in a series of five. The general plot involves a girl who desires to be a vampire. She is torn between loving a werewolf and loving a vampire. The actors and actress are a curious bunch that seems to grab and maintain your attention. Each of the first three movies move painfully slow, but deliberate enough that it gives one time to think about these circumstances from many different angles. I give the movie a ten, because I can see the care and effort that the team put in to create these three movies. I'm looking forward to watching the next two movies. The next two movies are Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2. I actually started research twilight phases, this is what brought me to these movies, and I'm glad it did.

morrison-dylan-fan After enjoying the first two adaptations in the Twilight series I took a look at the 3rd films IMDb page,and I was pleasantly surprised to find some positive reviews,which led to me getting ready to open the third chapter in the Twilight saga.The plot:Leaving a night club in Seattle, Riley Biers gets attacked by Victoria,who turns him into a vampire.Once he has been transformed,Victoria starts to Biers to train "new born" vampires for a war against the vampire who killed her lover.A year laterWhilst Victoria gathers her army,Edward's 18 year old (human) girlfriend Bella Swan grows increasingly uneasy about getting married at such a young age,as Swan continues to ask Edward if he can turn her into a vampire,so that there love can last forever.Caught up in their deep love for each other,Swan & Edward are left horrified when news flashes on the TV screen about strange killings taking place in Seattle. Learning from Swan's dad Charlie that he has been investigating the disappearance of a man called Riley Biers for a year,which leads to Edward fearing that Victoria is about to get her revenge.View on the film:Replacing original actress Rachelle Lefevre, Bryce Dallas Howard finally makes the baddies role in the series be fully felt,with Howard's wide eyed fury and short,to the point dialogue unleashing the anger that Victoria has towards Edward.Getting the role after sending an audition tape from Australia, Xavier Samuel gives a wonderful performance as Biers,by Samuel doing very well at keeping Biers good looks mask on,as Biers slowly transforms into a zombie- like,dead to the world beast.Taking a different route to the first two by not solely focusing on the love story aspect in the adaptation,the screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg smartly uses the baddies to give the title an exciting sense of urgency,by making everything that Edward and Bella do have some connection to the oncoming onslaught from Victoria & Biers.After building a love triangle between Bella,Jacob and Edward in the second film,Rosenberg opens up all the emotions which had been suggested in the past,which goes from Jacob pushing Bella to admit her feelings,to Bella having to hold back her passions to give Edward her virginity.Kicking the film off away from his lovers,director David Slade & cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe stop the light breeze from the last movies in its tracks,and take the saga in a murkier direction,thanks to dark blue needles of rain scattering across the screen,and the light greens from the blossoming romances of the past being replaced by stylish,washed out whites.Backed by a shimmering score from Howard Shore,Slade cuts a fantasy atmosphere deep within,by lighting up the screen with rough & tumble werewolves V vampires battles.Along with the impressive fantasy fight scene,Slade also gives the vampire factions distinctive appearances,with Victoria's vampires looking rotten to the core,and Edward's gang looking almost heavenly,as the third chapter in the Twilight saga ends.

willcundallreview Rating-5/10The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is the third instalment in the series and one that well, kind of takes it up a notch. Now please don't get me wrong, this is an average made movie but one that is so close to being kind of OK, it actually weirdly surprised me. It's better than New Moon by a long way and also in my opinion better than the first movie so this really does feel like the closest point this film series can get to franchise redemption so far.This part is better acted, Kristen Stewart steps it up a notch and Pattinson does too after a poor showing in New Moon. Even Taylor Lautner gets slightly better and it almost feels like he has come of a new age with confidence and more actual skill in his work. The story is kind of overstuffed in truth though with new people, Bryce Dallas Howard returns, well replaces the previous actor to play Victoria, the evil vampire bent on revenge on Bella since the first movie. The problem with so many people is that it feels hard to not only keep track but also it means the acting goes down a level as most of the new people are inexperienced.The film is no doubt a thrilling one, it has it's action although it is very much confined toward the end and so anyone wanting all out fighting will be slightly disappointed. One good thing with this though is that it doesn't hang around like it has done previously, the school isn't shown as much and we also get to explore more in the vampire world and we finally spend some time not talking about Bella. The romance is as ever it's radiant self, but is still awkward but not as much again as before. The lines are less stupid and the characters feel more real in this showing, some fans may feel it even strengthens in this one as the relationship is tested at times.The cinematography is one of the technical aspects that improves here, it feels more good movie like and avoids the common traps that make the camera work feel dull and not exciting enough. One trap that does get fallen into is the director David Slade, now he isn't bad but he doesn't improve enough for this to be a good piece of work for him, it falls back into the same old kind of category and although I feel Slade and the movie do try to escape that, it ultimately just about slides back in.It can feel just a little slow at times Eclipse can, with it's as I mentioned more time away from the school, it is more interesting but the boredom can creep in and kind of pointless adventures and conversations are had that feel very much like time wasting. The effects that are fairly poor before are still not perfect, but they are at least used well and on the point of the slow film, when the effects come, it can breath fresh air into the plot. They are also not overused as is also the usual case, before we had silly backdrops that looked really dumb, now all that is annoying scenery wise is the incredibly strange camera filters.Overall this is a kind of so-so movie that although never makes the grade, never falls flat on its face. This feels like a new beginning in the chapters of Twilight the movie series and is much more confident and all credit for at least pleasing hardcore fans yet again. One thing to say though is that this isn't good I will repeat, it may be for me the best in the series so far but I highly doubt the most cynical of critics for the series will find any solace in this part.

brchthethird This installment of the Twilight saga is a slight improvement across the board from the last one, but it is still every bit as cheesy. The story this time is a little more engaging, following the love triangle between Edward, Bella and Jacob and revolving around an unexplained series of killings in Forks. It turns out to be an army of Newborns being built by Victoria, and this draws the attention of the Volturi, who have a slightly expanded presence here. One thing that does keep me watching these movies without being utterly bored is the unintentional humor, especially in this one. The scenes between Bella, Edward and Jacob are really funny and over-the-top in their portrayal of masculinity and because of the woodenness of the performances. Some other positives include effective tension in a few scenes, as well as more action. The obvious set-piece here would be the climactic battle between the Newborns and the Cullens and the werewolves. However, since the movie is PG-13, the violence is bloodless. I still have some problems with the visual effects being slightly less than convincing, but at this point I don't really expect them to improve significantly anyway. Generally speaking, the acting has improved marginally since the first one, but the material they're working with is passé, immature and flawed. One performance in particular that stuck out to me as being really bad was Dakota Fanning as Jane, one of the Volturi. Also, Stephenie Meyer's Mormon roots are on full display now, as Edward acts as the mouthpiece for "traditional" values. It's a shame, really, that teenagers eat this stuff up. Times have changed, but most likely they were distracted by all of the teenage flesh on display. There's also a creepy moment early on where it's suggested (through dialogue) that Bella is essentially being groomed to be a vampire. This takes on a new meaning when you remember that Edward is over 100 years old, and Bella is a minor (although she does turn 18 in the movie). Still, this movie is somewhat worth watching, if only for the moments of unintentional comedy. Just don't complain if you don't like it, since you most likely made it through the previous installments to get to this one.