The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

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The biggest problem remains the characters: neither Slade nor Stewart are capable of turning manipulative whinger Bella into anything more than a joyless black hole sucking the life from every scene.

July 6, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Top Critic

I can't pretend that the third episode instilled a fever in my blood, but it didn't leave me cold. For the first time in the series I felt I'd seen a real movie.

July 1, 2010 Full Review | Comments (3)

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

In a rare moment of insight, the teenage but immortal vampires in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse complain about being "frozen" in their lives, unable to "move forward." So is everyone involved in this deathtrap of a franchise.

July 1, 2010 Full Review | Comments (7)

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

As always, the biggest screams emanating from the audience come when Lautner bares his chest.

June 30, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

The choice of whether to see Eclipse isn't really a question of whether the movie is good or bad. It's a question of whether or not the movie speaks to your secret, unregulated, inherently ridiculous experience of identification and desire.

June 30, 2010 Full Review | Comments (3)

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

Director David Slade keeps the action brisk and the time-killing attractive ... All of which should be like a freshly opened vein for fans.

June 30, 2010 Full Review

Bob Mondello

NPR

Top Critic

This third "Twilight" film eclipses its predecessors but its anti-climactic story and its melodramatic tendencies still hold it back.

December 25, 2012 Full Review

John Hanlon

Big Hollywood

it'll still appeal more to teen girls and the Twi-hard, Robsessed fanbase than boyfriends who've been forced to watch by their other halves, but thankfully there's less mopey melodrama.

October 19, 2012 Full Review

Stephen Carty

Flix Capacitor

Edward is cold and controlling: the archetype of an abusive partner and Jacob just acts like a rapist in training, he keeps trying to kiss Bella against her will.

September 29, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Adam Ross

The Aristocrat

[For] "Eclipse," it was easy to go through the list of old complaints and check them off one by one as the film progressed, including a story that leads absolutely nowhere.

September 25, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Like Bella, non-fans have a choice, and making a choice to stay away may save one some bewilderment.

February 6, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

This may be Slade's film but it's Summit's franchise, so any individuality he might wish to imbue in Eclipse comes a distant second to the needs of the series at large.

November 17, 2011 Full Review

Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

It is not exactly praise to call 'Eclipse' the best film in 'The Twilight Saga' to date.

November 5, 2011 Full Review

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Meyer's teen bore-triangle has a mimetic quality, assuming the same degree of naval gazing self-interest as the target demographic.

June 30, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Ed Whitfield

The Ooh Tray

Eclipse's adolescent roots continue to shine through but for once they're made to work in the film's favor rather than against it. It's competent and only rarely silly and considering the hole the series has been in that's quite a feat.

March 21, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Perhaps the most watchable entry in the Twilight series so far, it's still saddled with the most cipher-like heroine of all time.

December 29, 2010 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

Certainly not awful, but the producer's dedication to Stephenie Meyer's drawn-out story creates a lumbering third movie that borderlines on downright dull.

December 24, 2010 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

It's interesting to see each film make Bella into an even bigger creep than previously imagined, with Eclipse turning the indecisive heroine into a mean-spirited provocateur unworthy of all the attention lavished on her.

December 21, 2010 Full Review

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

... at least director David Slade pulls the film from the doldrums of the second film and sends the fur flying across the lush Pacific Northwest backdrops in the climax.

December 3, 2010 Full Review

Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

'Well, I am hotter than you.' This supposed reference to body temperature, uttered by werehunk Jacob to sparkly vampire Edward, is not just the funniest line in the film but a nice distillation of the tension that now drives the series.

December 3, 2010 Full Review

John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Eclipse surprises with (much needed) improvement; the first real blockbuster of the franchise.

October 22, 2010 Full Review

Katina Vangopoulos

Moviedex

If the producers of Twilight were given permission to remake Casper ... they'd probably have his ghostly apparition dress in some three-quarter jean-shorts, just to keep his modesty intact. Somebody has to think of the children, right

October 21, 2010 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

La tercera parte en una saga exclusivamente para fans, debido a que, hay que decirlo, las actuaciones simplemente son medianas. Una cinta que se deja ver al menos en video.

September 19, 2010 Full Review

Luis Martinez

Cinenganos

• 1. Jane: Either we let them do what they were created for, or we end them. Decisions, decisions.
  – Submitted by Sheriea J (7 months ago)
• 1. Jacob Black: I'm exactly right for you Bella, it would be as easy as breathing with me.
  – Submitted by Sheriea J (8 months ago)
• 1. Bella Swan: Jacob kiss me.
  – Submitted by Britney J (13 months ago)
• 1. Alice: Then why do I see you sneaking off to Vegas to get married without inviting me?
  – Submitted by Fatima M (21 months ago)
• 1. Bella Swan: This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was between who I should be and who I am. I've always felt out of step. Like literally stumbling through my life. I've never felt normal, because I'm not normal, and I don't wanna be. I've had to face death and loss and pain in your world, but I've also never felt stronger, like more real, more myself, because it's my world too. It's where I belong.
  2. Edward Cullen: So it's not just about me?
  3. Bella Swan: No. [pause]
  4. Bella Swan: Sorry...
  – Submitted by Dejah S (22 months ago)
• 1. Edward Cullen: You won't get another chance like this again! You want her! You want me to feel the pain you felt when I killed James! When I tore him to pieces.
  – Submitted by Dejah S (22 months ago)

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