Vampires and humans have been falling in love with each other for years either one falls in love with the human so he can drink her blood whereas the girl is most likely under a trance and does not know of what she is doing. While those types of stories are interesting they only serve a purpose as a mere plot device to push along the real story of the vicious vampire trying to regain power or destroy as many humans as he can. Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight", while interesting in its idea, takes this old tale of the blood feud between vampires and werewolves and romanticize it. I would be lying if I did not tell you that I was enthralled for the first two halves of this movie the story of an introverted teenage girl named Bella Swan was interesting for the most part. Watching her go through her daily routines and slowly but surely finding love, which is interesting for the most part but this shallow, and soulless adaptation of the mega popular books quickly takes a nose dive from being ingenious and refreshing. Turning into the titular teenybopper movies of modern cinema.
"Twilight" is a miscalculation on every level the story is good in its own right and the plot of the film about a young girl falling for a vampire is interesting but does not hold your attention long enough for you to enjoy it. It drones along at an agonizingly slow pace setting up the romance that fans of the books know is coming and that non-fans can see coming from 200 miles away. It holds it own for the first half but once Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) makes his appearance onscreen, it quickly turns into an empty, poorly made film that feels more like a T.V. movie than a big screen film. If the there was a better director, a better actor and a better screenplay and screenwriter this film could have been the start of a new era of stylized vampire films instead of a sour film that leaves you with a bad feeling afterwards.
Kristen Stewart is good for the most of the film but she is shallow at best it is as if she wants to do more than just read the lines she given but can't. You cannot connect with her character Bella Swan simply because of the way Stewart acts. She makes it impossible to form a bond with Swan because of her mousy voice and shy attitude, which I like in a girl but here it is just shameful. I've read that is how Swan is suppose to be Stewart lowers the bar even further taking the character to below the average of the teenage girl making Bella Swan an unlikable and unsympathetic character. I will say this in her behalf Kirsten Stewart for trying her best, if only for a little while. Robert Pattinson in my book was a complete and utter miscast as the vampire Edward Cullen Pattinson cannot act or hold his own in a film he is a complete and utter eyesore and only there to do nothing more than just please the millions of female fans out there. If he had at least tried to act in this movie I would give him a tip of my hat. Sadly, he did not but I will say this he did try for at least 20 minutes to be professional and then he went right into being just plain awful. The rest of the cast are as emotionless and talentless as the leads they provide no good support except to just stand there and look good.
"Twilight" is entertaining in it's own way for fans it's there dream come true, for non fans it's a kind of take it as it is type of movie or don't take it at all. How you view, the film is for you to decide if it is as a shallow heartless exploitation film or as a deeply rich and emotional one, (The latter is more believable). "Twilight” can entertain you if only for a little while.
