Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I reckon it is no secret that Kristen Stewart is quite possibly the worst actress of all time, especially considering that for some weird reason she is hugely popular despite not having any acting talent whatsoever. The idea about creating a romantic love story between her and someone else is just so laughable due to her zombie-like wooden performances that this is such a terrible film that it basically becomes an unintentional comedy.Well... atleast there is one little thing that Twilight did get right, and that is ( some parts of ) the cinematography. While not consistently visually beautiful some scenes did have some beautiful lightning ( Such as Edward playing the piano ) and some great use of beautiful environments. This is not consistent though, because a lot of the film is also quite pale and grey and ugly, most notably all the scenes that have to do with the school. This is pretty much the only positive thing i took out of this film, though. It is a shallow one dimensional linear cliché'd love story with such obvious and predictable twists and turns while having a terrible screenplay and terrible acting to enhance it.I suppose it no secret that the romance between Bella and Edward is not even close to being believeable by anyone that has a working brain and an IQ that reaches over sixty. Ofcourse it doesn't help that you have the worst actress of all time in the role of Bella, but we'll get to that later. Robert Pattinson isn't a very good actor either since he too has zero personality, and this creates an extremely emotionally vacuous kind of romance which leads into the hilariously comicly bad sometimes and cringy all the time. Their attraction for one another makes little sense since a normal human being wouldn't meddle with the kind of sinister weird type of guy that Edward is, and still meddle with him after he keeps threatening her. but i suppose this film isn't clever enough to understand anything about humans or human behavior anyway.Now i found Scarlett O'Hara for example an incredibly annoying female lead in Gone with the Wind, but it wasn't due to a terrible screenplay or a terrible performance, those were all right in place. It was because she needed to be like that to move the plot forward. What we have in Twilight, however, is an absolutely abyssmal screenplay combined with the worst actress of all time, which results in Bella Swann. 'I don't really like the rain, any cold wet thing i don't really...' 'I mean, you don't even say hi to me'... followed by a 'hi' response are just some basic examples of what a thoughtless mindless dumb insulting screenplay this is. It seems like the scriptwriters wrote this movie specifically for the dim-witted among us since everything is always obvious yet explained about twenty times for no reason. Kristen Stewart unintentionally steals the show with her weird head shaking, zombie like behavior and wooden narration. I sometimes doubt if she is really human since she has no emotional depth whatsoever. Her delivery is absolutely terrible and cringeworthy every single time due to her weird unnatural abnormal behavior.Now we also have the three villain vampires. The reason these three evil vampires are in the film makes no sense other than having to be there to create the cliché hero villain kind of situation. I can fathom the fact that the black guy is the only sensible one of the three ( Even though that is such a lazy political message nowadays ), but what i can't stand is that they have absolutely nothing to do with the main characters and even though there are millions of people in the world to feed on, would still go after Bella who is protected by the only creatures in the world that could possibly be a threat to them. What is the entire point behind these villains? It makes no sense, but then again this script makes no sense anyway. Also let's not forget that the main villain also wants to talk to and film Bella a little bit before killing her so that she can be saved. A typical hero villain cliché once again. The film could have been a bit better with ANY other lead actress, but it still wouldn't have saved the mediocrity of this script and the insulting nature of the film towards its audience.

This is a mediocre movie based on a mediocre book. The acting isn't very good, and neither are the special effects. Most of this move is unoriginal cliche filler, and all the characters are really dumb. The movie isn't consistent with its roles, and overall everything is pretty boring. I wouldn't recommend this movie, but its better than some of its sequels.

Movie Review: "Twilight" (2008)In times of November 21st 2008, "Twilight" directed by female director Catherine Hardwicke based on a novel series by Stephanie Meyer hits the U.S. domestic theaters to extraordinary success at the box office; starring newly introduced actress Kirsten Stewart, just turning 18 at the time of principal photography, as the coming-of-age character of Bella Swan, moving from the desert of Arizona of her mom's to the misty mountains of the village of Forks in state of Washington of her dad's, meeting a 90-year-old vampire at high school, who got transformed at the age of 17 some time in the past. Together they discover that a life in a relationship between two different species can be possible even in the most hostile situations of crashing vehicles onto pedestrians, young-adult gang raids at night and the constant hunger for human blood by rivalling clans of vampires, which despite the mythology have been cultivated by the family of Edward Cullen, portrayed in timid, calm to an outraging performance by actor Robert Pattinson, who takes the female as gay audience in raving storms with mystical-looks throwing as daggers to the screen, where suspense gets build for moments to be broken by images of forest-animals and steel-factory-employee hunting vampires, letting only guess what the following two installments of an trilogy have in chess, when treaties between shape-shifting werewolves and the clans of vampires get violated and further the leading character of Bella keeps on begging to be transformed into a vampire, when further dropping suspense-levels are going to be entirely sacrificed for cold shower romanticism between Stewart & Pattinson, who found a professional method to attract the masses to the end of no surprises.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Okay here are my ideas for making this a good movie: -make it 30 minutes shorter -remove those cringey moments with all the smelling and bad music -remove the constantly horny looks by the actorsMy ideas for making this a great movie: -better effects -better end fightBecause I thought it didn't suck, it had an interesting story, some good moments, amazing cinematography and I felt like the actors had potential.