The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Reviews

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

[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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

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

Full Review | Original Score: C

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

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.

Full Review | Original Score: D

... 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.

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'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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Glavni sastojci formule su ostali isti - antipatični likovi, isprazne replike i klieji. Prilično naporno iskustvo.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

What began as an enjoyably perverse fable of teen romance and chastity has dwindled, by this third instalment, into a sorry, soppy saga.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

More action, more characters, a tad more humor and some interesting backstories help but do nothing to improve upon the series' fatal flaws.

Full Review | Original Score: C+