Twilight Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

Fans at the screening I attended tittered throughout, perhaps finding the story's overwhelming cheesiness harder to take when seeing it enacted before their eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Dark Shadows at Degrassi Jr. High, but with half the budget of either of those two shows.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

For those of you who are intrigued by the story and older than thirteen, I recommend you check out LET THE RIGHT ONE IN which is drenched in subtlety and nuance. There is none to be found in TWILIGHT.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

The movie was directed by Catherine Hardwicke. She uses her great discovery, Nikki Reed, in the role of the beautiful Rosalie Hale. Reed wrote Hardwick's Thirteen when she was only 14. That was a movie that knew a lot more about teenage girls.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

If its muscles are flexed, we can expect three more of these movies. Hopefully, like the Harry Potter films, they'll get better as they go along.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Hardwicke has shrewdly made a film that will appeal to the audience that could make or break it. But there's little here to win over those of us without dog-eared copies of Twilight under our beds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Low-key is not the adjective you'd expect to describe a highly anticipated vampire movie, but there it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Put simply, it lacks fangs.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

If there is one saving grace to the film it is the performance of Pattinson.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Suggests Anne Rice slumming for a WB special

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Bella, a fairly unlikable young woman with a glum expression, has "put a smell" on Edward, a ruby red-lipped Nosferatu. It's a tedious stare-down. Bring a thermos of espresso. And an alarm clock.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

Gothic wooziness stifles many of Hardwicke's lighter impulses, such as her knack for jiving humor in scenes among friends and family. And some of the more cartoonishly gymnastic CG stunts look plain silly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

An underwhelming vampire romance long on camp but short on emotional insight.

Essentially, a CW take on Anne Rice, catering to the gooey-eyed fans of Meyer's novels and their unrealistic romantic expectations.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/10

Twilight is a self-selecting movie if there ever was one. Those who want to see it, will see it and love it. Others are warned away.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

I think this film is definitely a victim of it's own expectations.

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Unfortunately, it just didn't work.

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My hope is that the sequels are actual attempts at movies. The world doesn't need any more toothless cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

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