Twilight Movie Review

After much anticipation since they first screened the trailer, we caught the movie Twilight yesterday evening.

Ratings first. On the scale of 5, romance - 4/5, plot 4/5, scenes 3/5 and actions 2.5/5. Overall - 3/5.

Yes, I am critical. Many people said that it was good, which piled on my already high anticipation. I couldn't get my hands on the book in libraries, so that was probably why I was looking forward to the show.

Most knew already that the book was written to target young adults, utilizing romance to tantalize teenage girls to read an otherwise presumed scary story. It's about vampires, shouldn't it be scary? I have read reviews from bloggers, and some said it offered very little action as promised from the start of the book. I haven't read, so I couldn't say much, but the movie was way too short of details.

Now the explanation for the ratings. High romance rating, as it should be, as it was about an unnatural love story between a vegan-vampire and a high school girl. That very much saved the movie from more blushes.

The story was good. It was kind of refreshing, credits to the author of course, and the script-writer for the movie. It lost the other 20% on not wow-ing the audiences enough. Well, it was all about great car, secluded mansion in the forest, neck-breaking running speed, rock-smashing strength and glistening body in the sunlight. Probably it will be better with more murders, blood-sucking scenes, how evil the 'bad guys' were before the annihilation of one. It'll keep audiences on the edge of their seats that way, I guess.

Average scenes and actions. Yes, the scenaries were good, but some were just too short accompanied with brief actions. It was only a short stint of running the in forest, feeding on victims and throwing each other around into mirrors and pillars. The opposition died too quickly, agreed by Wayne. How he died too? The sacred fire? Not explained in the movie~

Perhaps it is meant to appeal to the general public, that's why the very little actions and violence seen. To me, it was not thrilling enough to be a romance/thriller.

Not really looking forward to the next one now, but guess I'll still catch it. Haven't missed many series of movies before once I've started it - LOTR, Spiderman, X-Men, POC, just to name a few.

Hopefully the next one will get better. The good thing was, they ended the show with a climax. That saved the show too.

Till then ... watch out for more Jeremy's Movies Review, though I don't frequent the cinemas.

See ya.