Oh wow! Twilight is a perfect movie. This is the first movie that, when it ended, I could not find a single fault with. Twilight is a targeted-at-teens movie. The casting is perfect. The direction is perfect. The pacing is perfect. The special effects are perfect. The script is perfect.
Good grief! It is so good that I plan to see it again.
Director Catherine Hardwicke helms the film expertly. She takes her time to develop the story and build up the characters. And she does it in a way that makes the audience want to sit quietly and see where Catherine is going to take us. She does try to give us visual originality, but is still a bit of a novice in this department -- but I expect a visually stunning second chapter (AND THE STUDIO HAD BETTER BE SMART ENOUGH TO RETAIN HER AS DIRECTOR!!!!!!!)
This film is of course based on the teen fantasy novel written by Stephenie Meyer. It is a teen-romance vampire story.
The perfectly understanding and a very attractive Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) moves out to let her mother enjoy her life with her new husband and Bella moves in with her father. In the constantly cloudy small town where her father lives, she enrolls in a new school, makes new friends and meets the handsome teem vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and the two fall in love.
The love between these two young ones is sweet and it is nice to see Edward's vampire family deal with their love as well as to see just how protective Bella is of her parents. The school life also rises above cliches and all the kids get along well.
There is a little bit of excitement brought on by some bad vampires. And of course, there is a celebratory prom night to help Bella, Edward an the audience to enjoy some good-to-honest love.
You don't feel the time passing at all! The film runs for just over two hours.
The King and U
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