If you're a fan of the book, I'm so sorry.
Twilight (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 189
Fresh: 93
Rotten:96
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus: Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated.
Australian Rating: M [See Full Rating] Supernatural themes and violence
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
Australian Theatrical Release:
Dec 11, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $191,449,475
Synopsis: TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teenage girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the... TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teenage girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella's soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires – James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) – come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life? --© Summit [More]
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Cam Gigandet, Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Reaser, Jackson Rathbone, Sarah Clarke, Ashley Greene, Anna Kendrick, Justin Chon, Kellen Lutz, Edi Gathegi, Rachelle Lefevre, Christian Serratos
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Producer: Greg Mooradian, Mark Morgan, Wyck Godfrey
Screenwriter: Mark Lord, Melissa Rosenberg
Producer: Mark Morgan, Greg Mooradian
Composer: Carter Burwell
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Reviews for Twilight
In a film of this kind a great deal depends on the chemistry between the lead actors, and here Twilight falls especially short.
The film's main problems stem from its uneven efforts to marry purple passion with black comedy.
A work of surprising precision and restraint from talented filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke.
It's easy to understand how Twilight has become a phenomenon. Superb treatment of Stephenie Meyer's best seller and two compelling lead performances make this Romeo and Juliet vampire saga into an utterly bewitching film
The genre has certainly come a long way from I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
A densely erotic, twisted take on teen screen romance and underage rebel lust. And while not exactly the sexually suggestive The Man Who Came For Dinner, Twilight zones out on a defiant inter-species dating fantasy, Close Encounters Of The Thirst Kind.
Twilight is pure fantasy, emphasis on the pure... it's a soft-focus reverie for girls who want to be Disney princesses and have their bad boys, too, as long as the bad boys are models of tormented self-restraint.
As lovers, these two are not convincing. They don't produce enough of a spark to set off gasoline vapor.
Bella, a fairly unlikable young woman with a glum expression, has "put a smell" on Edward, a ruby red-lipped Nosferatu. It's a tedious stare-down. Bring a thermos of espresso. And an alarm clock.
Twilight is a must see and a must for a sequel. Can anyone say New Moon 2010?
Hardwicke runs into trouble when it comes to actual business of the undead.
Vampires and romance are nothing new, but Twilight gives them enough of a twist to make it interesting and the film delivers enough on that twist to make it far better than its outlying plot makes it sound.
I watched Twilight in a cinema full of young girls who, when they weren't texting friends and guzzling soft drinks, giggled, sighed and exhaled with a passion that was not only endearing, but a measure of its emotional truth.
A sometimes girlie swirl of obsession that will delight fans, this faithful adaptation is after teenage blood, and will most likely hit a box office artery.
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