Twilight (2008)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 207
Fresh: 101 | Rotten: 106
Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 19
Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated.
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When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA, and set out to carve a niche for herself, she assumed it would be one similar to the low-profile social position she held back in Phoenix. First on the list of surprises was the unfamiliar attention from the male population of her new high school; second, the attention from one male in particular: Edward Cullen, Vampire (Robert Pattinson). Before long, the unlikely soul mates find themselves in a
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Cast
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Kristen Stewart
Bella Swan -
Robert Pattinson
Edward Cullen -
Billy Burke
Charlie Swan -
Peter Facinelli
Dr. Carlisle Cullen -
Elizabeth Reaser
Esme Cullen -
Cam Gigandet
James -
Nikki Reed
Rosalie -
Jackson Rathbone
Jasper -
Ashley Greene
Alice Cullen -
Kellan Lutz
Emmett Cullen -
Sarah Clarke
Renee -
Justin Chon
Eric -
Christian Serratos
Angela -
Michael Welch
Mike Newton -
Jose Zuniga
Mr. Molina -
Gil Birmingham
Billy Black -
Ned Bellamy
Waylon Forge -
Matt Bushell
Phil -
Gregory Tyree Boyce
Tyler -
Taylor Lautner
Jacob Black -
Edi Gathegi
Laurent -
Rachelle Lefevre
Victoria -
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All Critics (208) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (103) | Rotten (106) | DVD (5)
My hope is that the sequels are actual attempts at movies. The world doesn't need any more toothless cinema.
Top CriticA deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
Some will find it all too polite, but compared to rival blockbuster exercises in explosive CGI mayhem, its character-based index of longing and protectiveness at least provides a viable alternative moodscape.
I succumbed to the palpable chemistry between the leads, and remembered my own girlish fantasies with something of a head-spinning rush.
I think this film is definitely a victim of it's own expectations.
Unfortunately, it just didn't work.
Unless you're a 14-year-old girl who gets all giddy at the thought of cute boys and first love, steer clear of Thirteen director Catherine Hardwicke's anemic adaptation.
Yes, it's strongly geared to the teen audience, but don't hold it against the filmmakers and go in with any preconceived notions and you'll find it a fun opening chapter of a new franchise.
Even though some will find the whole thing far too tortured and po-faced, Twilight isn't completely without merit.
It's not the stunts and derring-do which excite the senses as much as the quiet chemistry between Stewart and Pattinson; that is guaranteed to get your blood up.
I've had mosquito bites that were more passionate than this undead, unrequited, and altogether unfun pseudo-romantic riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Its built-in fanbase (thanks to the best-selling novel) is ready to swoon. I'm not one of those swooners but even I had a great time indulging in the earnest urgency.
Twilight really does have an infatuation with surface beauty, especially where the vampires are concerned. In fact they sum up the film pretty well. It's a façade, an appealing one to people who share the right appetites, but that's all.
Cinema.com: A densely erotic, twisted take on teen screen romance, Twilight zones out beneath the crushing weight of underage lust intensified and complicated by the excruciating abstention here of unorthodox vampire appetites.
...the film has been infused with a deliberate pace that proves instrumental in establishing (and perpetuating) the source material's very specific atmosphere.
Romantic, smart, likable and often quite funny, without any tacked-on snarkiness or desperate hipness.
Twilight is mostly elegantly put together, though anything having to do with the pack of bad vampires is disastrous...
It's hard not to get sucked in--if one can get past the sometimes hokey, melodramatic teenage dialogue.
Suggests Anne Rice slumming for a WB special
For a piece about forbidden lust/love, it's not very tortured.
So this is what all the fuss is about?
Audience Reviews for Twilight
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- Edward Cullen: What if I'm no a hero. What if I'm the bad guy?
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- Edward Cullen: It's an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to and accept you for what you are.
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- Bella Swan: Vampirs play baseball?
- Edward Cullen: It is the national pastime.
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- Bella Swan: About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him-and I didn't know how potent that part might be- that thirsted for my blood. and third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
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- Jacob Black: Oh here let me help you.
- Edward Cullen: Jacob I got it from here.
- Jacob Black: See you around Bella.
- Bella Swan: Yeah.
- Edward Cullen: I leave you alone for five minutes and the wolves descend.
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- Rosalie: Why? What is she to me?
- Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Rosalie. Bella is with Edward. She's part of the family now. We protect our family.
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Foreign Titles
- Twilight - Biss zum Morgengrauen (DE)
- Twilight - Chapitre 1: fascination (FR)
I think there was just something missing. Don't get me wrong I love supernatural stuff and I like romantic teen angst crap or well I did. I mean movies like Some Kind of Wonderful I have enjoyed. BUT this just felt like a bad teen romantic drama masquerading as a vampire flick.
Kristen Stewart I think has done better. For some reason she just looked uncomfortable in this role. Pattinson seemed far more comfortable in his. If anything his sometimes casual joking attitude at times made me like the movie. Stewart just seemed just along for the ride.