The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

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• Justin Y

  
  David Slade continues the third installment of the highly dramatic saga with <i>Eclipse</i>.<p>At nearly two hours, <i>Eclipse</i> isn't exactly an easy sit through. The story is a slow burn and it has monotonous written all over it; however, aside… More
  David Slade continues the third installment of the highly dramatic saga with <i>Eclipse</i>.<p>At nearly two hours, <i>Eclipse</i> isn't exactly an easy sit through. The story is a slow burn and it has monotonous written all over it; however, aside from the romantic love triangle that makes up this series, there are some historical moments for a few of the supporting characters, as well as the werewolves. Despite not being overly integral to the main storyline, these become interesting pieces to the plot.</p><p>With the usual vampires and werewolves running about, it's sad to say that the action is far and few in between. There is nowhere near enough to make up for the rest of the nonchalant film. The violence level is also low and the CG is only acceptable.</p><p>It is difficult to fault the acting with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson putting up tame and undistinctive performances because that is what they are going for with the two leads. The more energetic performers in Bryce Dallas Howard and Ashley Greene are underutilized.</p><p><i>Eclipse</i> does have its ups and downs and by the end it is merely a watchable romantic fantasy.</p>

• Wildaly M

  
  Average.

• KJ P

  
  Surprisingly Great! I never thought I would like the third chapter in a series better than both of it's predecessors, but this movie severely proved me wrong. It intrigued me and moved me away from what the second did absolutely wrong. New Moon felt a little messy and the… More
  Surprisingly Great! I never thought I would like the third chapter in a series better than both of it's predecessors, but this movie severely proved me wrong. It intrigued me and moved me away from what the second did absolutely wrong. New Moon felt a little messy and the original felt a little too melodramatic with it's overblown glockable romance scenes, whereas this film created new levels in cinematic romance. Even if you are not a fan of Twilight, I say you catch up on the films and go out for a satisfying time at the movies. The first two films were more set as a rental, for some reason I love the direction that this movie has taken. There is finally some peace made and it just seemed to evil by the end of Twilight, so much that it can never be thought that it could have been changed here. The characters were brought to life with flashbacks and stories, which becomes much more satisfying for a confused movie watcher. Somehow the actors and actresses pulled all of their strings and brought whatever they had from their acting career to the table, showing that they had much more talent than that of what they showed in the previous installments. The action seems a little overdone at some points and it does seem to take a while, but it is fine by me when they bring new things, such as comedy and wit. The series has finally leveled out and is now reaching a point where it just has to stay. I will fight for these films until the last film roles :) Recap: Twilight- Weak for the first in a series, but on it's own, very, very good. New Moon- Sadly takes a wrong turn and becomes very sloppy and throws in unnecessary dialogue and action. Eclipse- Fixes any flaws the series ever had and comes to a very willingful unfinished conclusion. GREAT!!

• Brad W

  
  Major improvement on the series, enjoyed the action scenes, but still dont enjoy the romance and shirtless guys. But is still a major improvement. They actually get into character development for once, and had some good action for once, THANK YOU! The plot had some problems, but… More
  Major improvement on the series, enjoyed the action scenes, but still dont enjoy the romance and shirtless guys. But is still a major improvement. They actually get into character development for once, and had some good action for once, THANK YOU! The plot had some problems, but compare it to the first two, and it rocks. I actually saw some good acting in the tent when Wdqard and Jacob are talking about Bella. Im never gonna be a fan of Twilight, but this is the only good installment.

• Emily A

  
  This movie is fucking bullshit. Silly, silly, silly-ass bullshit. I want my two dollars back. I found this movie so grating for a million different reasons. And to think everyone says that it's the best of the bunch. Freaking honestly, how do you screw up a movie about an army of… More
  This movie is fucking bullshit. Silly, silly, silly-ass bullshit. I want my two dollars back. I found this movie so grating for a million different reasons. And to think everyone says that it's the best of the bunch. Freaking honestly, how do you screw up a movie about an army of evil vampires fighting with werewolves? HOW? In fact, how do YOU screw up a movie this badly, David Slade, Mr 30-Days-of-Night? I kept wishing for a vampire to get so angry that they screeched at the sky before they wyled out. Why on Earth would you take on this project to begin with, Slade? It does everything wrong, from the pacing to the characters to even the tiniest details. The camera pans out, revealing Edward Cullen and Bella cuddling, as reflected in a mirror. I grit my teeth. The werewolf animation was completely wooden and stiff that I didn't buy the illusion for a moment, but I did kind of like the way vampire flesh can shatter like marble if another vampire punches them hard enough. Come to think of it, that is this series' only departure from canon I even remotely liked. But still, you can kill a vampire by punching it really hard? Gimme some brass knuckles and stand back, baby! And why did you put this big fight so far toward the end of the movie? It's not as if the audience is going to be doing anything during the drama besides waiting for it. The entire first hour and a half of this movie isn't story; it's postponement of what we came to see. You guys are all assholes. Oh, and just because something is long as hell, doesn't mean it's a "saga", and calling it that won't magically grant the existence of a story. Nice try. Bryce Howard was all wrong as Victoria. She kept dwelling on her vulnerability and grief, which completely undermined her effectiveness as a villain. Her plan was assinine too. If I was hatching a plan that was trying to work around a clairvoyant on my enemies' side, here's what it would look like: Step 1: Kill Alice. Step 2: Restrain Edward. Step 3: Kill Bella in front of Edward. Step 4: Watch and laugh as Edward kills himself. This movie is like the Puss-Weeds Parade: a whole bunch of navel-gazing, whimpering simpering saps stumbling over thier lines, thier emotions and each other. It kills me how many people are willing to throw themselves between a bullet and Bella Swan, a girl who never does anything for anybody, and whose only discernable characteristics are her clumsiness and her drooling love for Edward. Seriously, she defines herself through him the way fanatical muslims define themselves through Islam: I wonder what Edward is doing right now, I wonder what Edward would think of this, Edward said this the other day, I know Edward can protect me, blah blah blah. What the fuck is wrong with you? Jacob is even worse, with his stalking, sulking, leering and pathetic obsession. "I will love you until you stop breathing"? What the hell does that mean? That's some Slipknot shit right there. I'm not kidding, "I will kill you to love you" are the lyrics of Iowa. The one and only bright spot in this movie is Xavier Samuel, who you might remember getting his ass handed to him in The Loved Ones. The poor guy must have thought he was in an actual horror movie, because he behaves like a badass, vampire ringleader should. He's quite intimidating at times, radiating the sort of angry evil bloodlust that characterizes the essence of the monster he's playing. He's pretty easy on the eyes to boot. He must die! There are no vampires allowed in this movie. This is Twilight.

• Adam K

  
  I watched this film as a non- twilight fan and I remain a non-twilight fan. Poor script and bad acting dominates the film with only few good moments. Sitting in the cinema with three twilight fans I was tortured. Only one thing that stood out was the cinematography which for a few… More
  I watched this film as a non- twilight fan and I remain a non-twilight fan. Poor script and bad acting dominates the film with only few good moments. Sitting in the cinema with three twilight fans I was tortured. Only one thing that stood out was the cinematography which for a few moments was quite good. I actually sat up for it but it became like the film bad and straw like and wooden. I hope the books are better than the films and I hope they do release the next one one day apart so everyone will shut up about them. In three words, Vampires are awful. * 1 Star

• Spencer S

  
  To be fair this was a far better adaptation to a mediocre source material then the two accompanying films in this, the harshly judged Twilight saga. Personally, I have a slight bias against these films, as I have read the incredibly bland and banal source material written by Stephenie… More
  To be fair this was a far better adaptation to a mediocre source material then the two accompanying films in this, the harshly judged Twilight saga. Personally, I have a slight bias against these films, as I have read the incredibly bland and banal source material written by Stephenie Meyers. The storyline is a bore, which could have been salvaged by interesting characters and extraordinary circumstances. Bella, the supposed female heroine for the tween generation, is so pointlessly one sided and uninteresting that any depressed teenage girl can project herself onto her and become the love interest of a vampire. This desperation to be different, loved deeply for yourself, and dependent on someone else for your happiness is pathetic and anti-feminist. I do give consideration for the direction, a giant step up from the previous; Catherine Hardwicke. The location shots, cinematography, and sweeping views of the beautiful Seattle landscape were appreciated, lending to a foreboding feel somewhat shattered by the performances. Many of the principal actors were as benign as ever, their emotional responses somehow conduited with a bloodthirsty growl ever so often. Kristen Stewart, who has shown some great strength in Into the Wild and The Runaways, is so sickening as a nothing sort of character that I just become angered watching her struggle through her only two emotions: anger and bliss. Some scenes were engrossing, but that may just be the subtleness of Stewart's acting, Pattinson's strong presence, and the added impressions of Dakota Fanning and the newly cast Bryce Dallas Howard as Victoria, the villain for the film. It wasn't smart or interesting, but it was still better than watching Edward sparkle for a straight hour and a half.

• Alexander D

  
  The best so far in the Saga, the most faithful to the novels. However, my prediction for BREAKING DAWN, since the book was boring and actually stupid, is that it is going to be more a comedy than anything because of bad acting and desire to get the series over with. In other words,… More
  The best so far in the Saga, the most faithful to the novels. However, my prediction for BREAKING DAWN, since the book was boring and actually stupid, is that it is going to be more a comedy than anything because of bad acting and desire to get the series over with. In other words, I'm glad this one is the midpoint rather than the penultimate (BREAKING DAWN will be two parts), because a penultimate entry in a saga like this just starts frustration, angst, and scrapping of plot materials--all to get the entire series's production over with.

• Michael G

  
  The Twilight movies are downright painful, I'll say that right now. The first one made me want to puke but that was only because it fell into the So Bad Its Good category and that was only because it was kind of like getting tickled until you throw up. You could tell that no one… More
  The Twilight movies are downright painful, I'll say that right now. The first one made me want to puke but that was only because it fell into the So Bad Its Good category and that was only because it was kind of like getting tickled until you throw up. You could tell that no one knew how to act or the director was bipolar or whatever. The movie was definitely off but if you were fucked up enough it was actually watchable. Now that the studio knows it has a cash cow on its hands and is putting competent human beings in charge of the subsequent installments these movies are just no fucking fun. They're like throwing up because of food poisoning. They've still got this stressed urgency whenever something supposedly important happens and all the characters stand next to each other intensely but its like they're real movies. Eclipse works under the supposition that you've seen the previous movies dozens of times each and that because these people are attractive you'll automatically give a shit. The acting s e e m s like its a little better this time around (I may have gotten numb to it at this point) and the back stories were nice even though they weren't interesting. The whole vampire war was anticlimactic and why the fuck do I do this to myself?

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• Bethany M

  
  I laughed at quite a few scenes and the love story just gets more and more beautiful every time I see the films. One of the best out of the sequels without question. Robert Pattison and Taylor Lautner have gorgeous bodies too which help the film. A must see!

• Cassie H

  
  Another movie that's worth watching. I love these movies & I'm for Team Jacob all the way. I really wish Bella & Jacob were a couple although I'm starting to switch to Team Edward because I love Robert Pattinson! :)

• Michael E

  
  The only Movie i would give over a 50%, just for entertainment value

• Drew S

  
  If you had told me six months ago that I would have watched all three Twilight movies (and the first one twice!), I probably would have laughed in your face. If you then went on to tell me that I actually sort of enjoyed the third one, the laugh would have faded away, replaced by an… More
  If you had told me six months ago that I would have watched all three Twilight movies (and the first one twice!), I probably would have laughed in your face. If you then went on to tell me that I actually sort of enjoyed the third one, the laugh would have faded away, replaced by an expression of barely restrained disgust, and then probable self-loathing. But then that was six months ago - I was a much prouder man, one who knew admittedly little about Twilight, unafraid to talk shit about it but open-minded enough to eventually give it a try. And listen, I know the three star rating is probably sort of confounding. It confounds me too, because this is not and has never been a good series. The characters are vacant, the plot implausible, and Stephenie Meyer's mythology should have humiliated her right out of the young adult ring. But this movie actually has a spark. Maybe it's David Slade's direction that deserves credit - his fight scenes are worlds better than the disasters we saw in New Moon, and his colors and cinematography are much more tightly controlled. Perhaps spending a total of six hours with this collection of nitwits has somehow endeared me to them, in a way that a brain damaged puppy would almost surely be endearing. They're floundering, but what else can they possibly do? Or it may even be that the series, after its woefully empty second chapter, has actually hit some semblance of dramatic stride. There are actual stakes now, lives in the balance; it isn't just about Bella hesitating, Edward being cryptic for no real reason other than enigmatic affect, and Jacob being boring. Well, it's still about Jacob being boring, but that will never change. Stephenie Meyer has finally managed to transpose Bella into a situation so clearly bigger than her, to where her overwhelmed feelings become entirely understandable. As an audience proxy, she's never been used better, actually eliciting some degree of empathy. This is almost invariably going to be the high point of the series, but even with the earnest efforts of everyone involved, it's still the best work that a set of cheap tools can possibly make. After evaluating its strengths objectively, they simply don't seem like enough to keep me around, and yet I stay. It's not an issue of schadenfreude, because there's really very little humor to be found in the idiocy of the Twilight saga. At this point, I think for me it's reached a perverse need to understand the allure of this series. For the first time, I was actually taken a step closer to that goal. In the midst of a hackneyed war between vampires and werewolves, Meyer found a reasonable human center, and even if I can't relate to it entirely, I at least know why many of this series' fans do.

• Zach B

  
  David Slade, the director of this film, is one of very wonderful talent in his first two films: Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night. Now, with those films, he is able to bring up true suspense and create stories that not only grab your attention, but also makes you interested in what… More
  David Slade, the director of this film, is one of very wonderful talent in his first two films: Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night. Now, with those films, he is able to bring up true suspense and create stories that not only grab your attention, but also makes you interested in what happens. But, with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, he seems to have fallen for the old tradition of directors: A terrible film has to be made. It is only a pity that his worst film is part of the already terrible Twilight franchise. But, while the series is one of the worst in film history (the films winning numerous razzies; the most of any franchise), this is the best film in this saga and that is not saying much. At all. The acting is still stale and paper thin with some improvement here and there from Sladeâ(TM)s direction. The script for this film and the last two films are already damned due to the terribleness of the source material, and I am just disappointed that there is no one who would be willing to try to make the films have some form of a redeeming quality. Now, there are a few scenes in the film (like the beginning of the film with Riley turning into a vampire) is not at all great, but is one of the good mediocre scenes that should try to redeem the film, but does not. Now, the score to this film needs to be improved. I understand that this is for a preteen age girl audience, but do they seriously need to get every alternative band to work on the film? Here is a tip for the film makers: A traditional score with a complete orchestra works a hell of a lot better. Now we come down to the production values of this film. Like the rest of the film series, it suffers from the over budget being spent on everything BUT the production. Hopefully, they will correct this and make it actually look decent (fat chance, but who knows?). Overall, this is David Sladeâ(TM)s weakest film and the strongest in the Twilight series, but that does not mean anything sense the film is not that good at all. It had the potential to be great, but it failed. Miserably. NOT RECOMMENDED.

• Michael S

  
  David Slade's direction is the main reason that ECLIPSE is the most watchable entry in the incredibly bland "Twilight" saga. The plot and characters are still paper thin, and the central love triangle is still nonsense, but Slade's darker and grittier vision (along… More
  David Slade's direction is the main reason that ECLIPSE is the most watchable entry in the incredibly bland "Twilight" saga. The plot and characters are still paper thin, and the central love triangle is still nonsense, but Slade's darker and grittier vision (along with strong cinematography... I know, shocking isn't it) is definately a much needed and welcome addition. There's also some pretty neat effects this time around that actually look like they weren't assembled on a TV budget. I have a feeling that this right here is the strongest that "Twilight" will ever get. Fans be thankful.

• Robert C

  
  I found the mini vampire bios a feeble attempt at adding some depth to these otherwise shallow characters. I found the Vamp/Werewolf vs Newborn Vamp Army battle to be almost exciting, which is a big step up for these films. I still find the dialog, acting, characters and… More
  I found the mini vampire bios a feeble attempt at adding some depth to these otherwise shallow characters. I found the Vamp/Werewolf vs Newborn Vamp Army battle to be almost exciting, which is a big step up for these films. I still find the dialog, acting, characters and storylines to be embarrassingly bad. I used to find Kristen Stewart interesting and full of potential, but with each one of these films those feelings are fading.

• Douglas W C

  
  Good third movie, I like this the best of the lot. saw them all 3 over a 4 week period and now I have to wait for the last one. Bummer. But don't these guys own shirts.

• Steve K

  
  Mock me all you want, but at least the films are improving. What started as an exercise in mockery has become more of an interest in seeing if they can stay on this trajectory and end with something somewhat worthwhile.

• Everett J

  
  Saying this is the best of the 3 isn't saying much,as none of them are that good. Bad acting and a lame story,but it does have good action towards the end. Watch True Blood instead!

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