Cast Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson
Ashley Greene
Peter Facinelli
Elizabeth Reaser
Jackson Rathbone
Nikki Reed
Kellan Lutz
Taylor Lautner
Screenwriters
Melissa Rosenberg
Mark Lord
Director
Catherine Hardwicke
Running Time
122 minutes
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen, a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella's soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires comes to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life? (Summit Entertainment)
It's not really like a horror or action movie but more an indie drama. The setting is magnificent, tree covered mountains half shrouded in fog. It takes its time slowly building the story and introducing a lot of supporting human characters although having done that not a lot is done with them and after a certain point they vanish but I guess you needed them just to create that sense of place. The three predatory Vampires sub-plot seems contrived, sort of bolted on, it would have been more interesting to have the murders committed by one of the Vampire family. It was much better than I thought it would be, I was somewhat reluctant to see it although say Empire gives it 4 stars. In a way I justified it that adding to its revenue would if however slight increase the chances of a Buffy movie. The climatic fight was done really well, the special effects especially the destruction to the wooden floor were impressive. The wire work where the characters were jumping was a little obvious generally. Moving on a wire you travel in straight lines where as jumping you would follow a curved trajectory so that stood out. The speeded up running kind of worked, maybe 90% worked and 10% was Benny Hill but they always seemed to cut away before it got too bad. I haven't read the books so it's difficult to say really that another film could be that different if that's all there is to it, I don't see where it could go from here.
