The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Reviews

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

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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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

As long as these movies remain about three petulant whiners staring at each other to little effect, no rousing action sequences are going to save them from their torpor.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

The core problems with the Twilight films are still very much present in this new instalment including the plodding pace, the trite dialogue and the very regressive subtext.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

My inner adolescent craves a role model who's got more going for her than a melodramatic crush.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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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No sex before marriage makes vampirism totally unsexy in this riskless, casualty-free confrontation

Full Review | Original Score: C

Eclipse basically treads a whole bunch of the same ground we went over in the last terrible movie, except this time Jacob keeps coming across like a rapist in training.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

For most of its languorous running time, it listens to conversations between Bella and Edward, Bella and Jacob, Edward and Jacob, and Edward and Bella and Jacob. This would play better if any of them were clever conversationalists.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Kristin Stewart, an actress who shows amazing range and ability when not playing Bella, continues to do her best imitation of a cardboard cutout here.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

More happens in Eclipse than in the previous Twilight zone, New Moon, and yet it's duller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Still bad, but just maybe, mildly less bad than the previous two.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

124 minutes of listening to teenagers melodramatically espouse the depth of their convoluted passions for each other makes for a pretty dire trip to the movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

If you belong to a Jacob vs. Edward blog, or have a Twilight poster hanging over your bed, this is your movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

"Eclipse" isn't awful but, like its two predecessors, it is a largely listless, apathetic affair.

Full Review | Original Score: C

This film should come with a phone cord to twirl around your finger as you engage in eternal dating gossip.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

When the face of ultimate evil is represented by the bland visage of Dakota Fanning, something has gone terribly wrong.

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I left the cinema feeling as though I deserved a t-shirt that read 'I survived the Eclipse'

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5