Writers: Melissa Rosenberg, Stephanie Meyer (author)
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
It’s only been 7 months and already Twilight is back on the big screen for the third time. With barely any breathing time for fans, Summit Entertainment is just striking when the pot is hot. In Eclipse, Bella is still pouting over how she wants to be friends with the shirtless werewolf Jacob, but can’t when she is madly in love with the sexy vampire Edward Cullen. The two monstrous clans have to join forces to protect Bella though, when they discover the evil vampire Victoria is back once again, this time with an army of newborn vamps to finally kill Bella. Kristen Stewart is back to brooding and Taylor Lautner still can’t find a shirt. What else is knew? Well, a new director and some new special effects to make a new, better film altogether. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Eclipse was by no means a spectacular film, but it is the first film of the franchise that is actually decent. When we look back, Twilight was a complete piece of crap, New Moon was ok, and now Eclipse is actually pretty good. This franchise is slowly getting better and better which gives me hope that Breaking Dawn (the fourth film) could be a very good film. Now, of course every teenage girl (including myself) would love this film no matter what. Any depiction of the books at all would get us excited. However, Eclipse is the only Twilight film so far that a non-twilight fan could see, understand and actually enjoy. Fairly unknown director David Slade was the one to improve this ongoing franchise with the shortest amount of time to make and edit the film out of all the films so far. What made Eclipse stand out among the others was a mix of the story, the special effects and even the acting. Credit for the third story obviously goes to Stephanie Meyer, but also to screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg (the writer of the first 2 as well), who I noticed organized the events and occurrences from the book onto the screen much better this time. When I say the acting was better, I’m not referring to the leading 3 actors, but to Nikki Reed and Jackson Rathbone, who play Rosalie and Jasper, two of Edward’s siblings. The two actors did not improve their acting skills, but the story of Eclipse focuses more on their characters than it did in Twilight or New Moon. I found both actors to be very compelling with their new amount of screen time and can only hope there is more screen time for them in Breaking Dawn. Robert Pattinson, who I have always thought to be one of the better actors of the cast, was even more intriguing in Eclipse as well. Replacing Rachele Lefevre with Bryce Dallas Howard for the role of Victoria did not improve or hurt the franchise in any way, but it was nice to see a Canadian on screen for the first two films. Australian actor, Xavier Samuel took on the role of the vengeful Riley and he was quite good in his role, not to mention pretty good looking. There is no point recommending or not recommending this film because I know people who want to see it (teenage girls) will just see it automatically and people who don’t want to see it (everyone else in the world) will probably stay away from the teenage infested theatres. However, it’s worth a chance for those who wouldn’t think of seeing it.
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