She even avoids blinking for the entire movie. Stewart has never been more natural as the pale-faced Bella.
But with Meyer’s love triangle finally balanced, we’re free to just enjoy the silliness. The Cullens build the newlyweds a cottage as a gift – only to announce plans to move away the next day, while Jacob has imprinted (“a moronic wolf thing”) on Bella’s daughter. Led by the convincing lead couple, the cast do well to keep a straight face given some of the dreadful leaps of logic on display. “You don’t live in the world you think…” he purrs, slipping off his shoes.
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It may not sound like much of a plot to last two hours, but the movie barrels along without the heavy-handed emotions that held back the bloated sequels.Īs the only human left in the freak show, Billy Burke’s dad, Charlie, gets to do some serious mourning, but even that is short-lived, quickly solved by Jacob (Lautner) undressing in front of him. Half-human, half-vampire, she looks like someone photoshopped a picture of a face onto a baby’s body – no wonder the Volturi (the vampire police/royal family, led by a camp Michael Sheen) want to destroy it and the rest of the Cullen clan.Īnd so the stage is set for the epic battle. Embracing the full body horror of vampiric pregnancy in Part 1, here he revels in the demented glee of newly-turned vamp Bella (Stewart) and her and Edward Cullen’s (Pattinson) creepy offspring, Renesmee.
And boy, is it fun.īill Condon, director of Dreamgirls, was never one to shy away from the madness of the final Twilight tome. It’s a climax that sees Stephenie Meyer’s romance explode into a kind of undead Avengers. Two-thirds in, the monsters line up on a snowy field, ready to rip each other’s faces off. Cast: Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Michael Sheenįive years and five films after Twilight introduced us to the heady world of hormones and vampires, the saga ends with Breaking Dawn: Part 2, a blisteringly bonkers punch-up between supernatural beasties.