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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The third of Stephenie Meyer’s four Twilight stories, the original cast return with new director David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy).

Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) have been reunited, but their forbidden relationship is threatened again with an evil vampire seeking revenge. Bella is forced to choose between her true love for Edward or her friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) as the struggles between vampires and werewolves continues. But there is still another choice for Bella to make, mortality or immortality?

Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Bryce Dallas Howard

Directed by David Slade ('Hard Candy','30 Days of Night')

Written by Melissa Rosenberg (based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer)

Romance, Horror, Drama, Adaptation | 2hr 4mins | Rated (M) | Contains Fantasy Violence | Origin: USA

Flicks review

  • Edward or Jacob? Life or death? Graduate high school or tap a vein? Twi-hards will already know the answers. Not that it matters. The third film in the Twilight franchise teases every nuance of anguish from leads Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, who appear more comfortable in their roles and less prone to the ‘sexy-voice-syndrome’ that plagued them in the previous films.

    And despite the return to the first film's heavy soap opera, this one feels more like a proper vampire flick. It's just as well Stewart doesn't have a problem with blackheads. Director David Slade (Hard Candy) goes super-close-up, pulling the viewer into Bella's troubled love life and creating an almost nauseating claustrophobia; the same could be said of the dizzying comic book action scenes as the Cullens attempt to ward off an army of "newborn" vampires creating murderous havoc across Seattle.

    Brilliant moments of (unintended) comedy arise out of this earnest conflict. A pup tent appears inexplicably on the side of a mountain range – within it unfurls the makings of a prudish threesome, one of many scenes of Jacob flexing his six-pack. Flashbacks to prim social eras explaining how the vampires got that way are rattled by modern American accents. After a tense build-up to the arrival of the most vicious bloodsuckers, it's a little disconcerting to see an army of skinny indie kids, led by the fiery but slight Dakota Fanning, turn up in the climax.

    Mostly though, Slade has done an excellent job tapping into what Twilight fans want, regardless of how shamelessly their buttons are pushed. It's not just bloodlust but that of the human variety, a swoony sexual longing that charges Eclipse with the tension that made Stephenie Meyer's printed series so popular.

    By Rebecca Barry, Flicks.co.nz

 Our Rating       3

The Peoples voice

  • BEST MOVIE EVER 5 out of 5

     5

    The movie was so f**king good and jacob is so hot i could have in the cinama striped and humped the screen.

    By amy

  • BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     5

    I loved the movie and i feel like having sex with edward

    By nadia

  • Not worth watching

     1

    Gives a bad name to vampires

    By Jerf

  • Didnt like it

     1

    Bad

    By Stupid

  •  4

    I am going to see it with my mum. I hope it doesn't get too awkward

    By jo

  • AWSOME MOVIE

     5

    i loved it its now in my top 10 movies of all time
    IT ROCKED

    By bla bla bla

  •  1

    Much better than new moon. But i like the books much better than the movies

    By Sarah

  • great movie

     5

    bring on braking dawn

    By keanan

  • Cant wait to see i hope

     5

    lol

    By Dylan Robinson

  • Awsome

     5

    great movie

    By Daniel

  • OCAJD!!! OMG!!!

     5

    I have official cullen and Jacob disorder!
    i can't diside first it was edward and i never liked jacob but now i do this movie has changed my opinon on twilight.
    I LOVED IT SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!
    best movie i have seen this year twilight fan all the way now i think i'm gonna buy a jacob umbrella and a twilight tee shirt!!!
    TWILIGHT 4EVA!!! YEAH!!!! =)=)=)=)=)=)=)

    By AS9H

  • Loved it

     5

    I thought it was the best movie so far, bring on breaking dawn

    By Alison

  • LEG HITCH WoW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     5

    I so loved this movie best by far!!!
    But I hated the part when Bella road of with Jacob in front of Edward, also I hated when Bella asked Jacob to kiss her that part really P***ED me off!!!
    I loved both meadow scene & the bedroom scene including the proposal!!!
    The fight training was SO cool as well as both fight scene!!
    I think that they should have included Emmett background story with Rosalie!!
    But I SO LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    By bbygrl

  • Great Film

     5

    I think everyone should see this film. It's a pity that the apartheid rascist regime in Israel and it's inhuman illegal blockade of Gaza will prevent 800,000 indigenous Palestinian children from seeing this film just because they are the wrong religion and the wrong colour.

    The Israelis will stop the Palestinian children from seeing this film reading books, drawing with crayons, eating chocolate, drinking clean water and living without fear - all because they are Christians and Muslims and those are the wrong religions.

    Peace

    By Jane Harmann

  • EPIC LOVE VAMPIRES

     5

    love twilight eclipse cant get enough thought the tent scene was the best all the rivals and jealousy love triangle Taylor and Robert cant wait for breaking dawn eclipse is a must see movie my son is 3 and he cant get enough watching hes always yelling out yeah yah twilight lol

    By shantele

  • The best!!

     5

    its the best twilight movie so far!!!!! it rocks sooooo much!!!

    By Amy

  • Finally I Luv it!!!!

     5

    Best one yet yay. Way better than New Moon. David Slade did a wonderful job getting all the main bits in and especially keeping to the book. Heaps of action, Jaspers and Rosalie background had to be in there, along with the rest of the wolves awesome, can't wait for Breaking Dawn yeeha. Twilight fans won't be disappointed.

    Twilight mania is back yay, Eclipse was the bomb!!!!!!!
    By Celia

    By Celia

  • hate

     1

    By chch

  • Fantastic!

    Having seen it at the first screening (midnight) I thought the movie was so worth it! Definitely the best of the three and it was great that it had a lot of the exact lines from the book. It was hilarious! Can't wait to see it again!!!

    Love it!!!!!!!!

    By Charlotte

  • The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

     5

    Definitely a vast improvement from New Moon. Brought back the intensity of Twilight and more action then New Moon.

    What made Twilight for me, was it's subtlety. A person had to watch Twilight over and over to capture things such as Edwards black eyes in class, then the color change when he returned etc.

    The first director had the touch of a women, fine detail, that the eye couldn't capture in one screening. New Moon had that mans touch, no subtlety, action and comedy, the detail could be captured in one screening.

    Eclipse, I would see a few more times, but still lacks that fine detail of a women.

    By Anthony de Thierry

  • Cool guys

     5

    I think this movie was really cool but the thing is that i havn't even seen it but i really want to i am going to see it in like i don't no when but sometime

    :)

    By Kaya

  • LOVE IT

     5

    uhm i reckon its the best out of all the twilight seious

    By tee

  • sister seen it

     1

    my sister seen it but i dont like it

    By lukey

  • love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

     5

    coolest one yet!! u have 2 c it

    By sophie

  • cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     5

    really love it

    By zoey

  • Sucky

     2

    I thought it would be better than the first ones considering the epic failure of New Moon I expected this one to be a little more interesting with more... bite. But the special effects are dumb and Robert Patterson looks like a half dead cow covered in s**t.

    By Narn12

  • Haters Gonna Hate.

     3

    It looked really rushed.
    A lot of the shots were out of focus, the special effects seemed rushed, it's definitely not going to be remembered for it's cinematography.
    It's like Shortland/Coro Street with Vampires made of crystal.
    It's not a bas film. It's just padded with SO much dialogue. It's edited together with random cutaways to the Red Eyed Crack-Fiend Vampires, and the final battle has like, 20 people in it? Bit of an anticlimax. I wanted to see Kristin Stewart have sexytime though.

    By Tom Neunzerling

  • BEST MOVIE ON EARTH

     5

    i went to c it and its the best in the whole series so far twihards will not be disappointed its fulled with action and romance u got to c ir


    TEAM SWITERLAND

    By jaime

  • BEST TWILIGHT MOVIE YET!

     5

    Loved it! Lots of action and romance!

    By Mikayla

  • HOT HOT HOT !!!!!!!!!!!!

     5

    Awesome great scenes, humour, and jealousy and love and suspense and just love it just cant get enough............and who said its for teenasgers ...I DON'T think so xxxxxxxxxxxxx

    By Joanne Eyre

  • not bad

     3

    By coreena

  • BEST YET OUT OF 3!!

     5

    just came back from seeing the first screening. this is the best one yet. loved it!!!!!!! have to see it again. true twi fans wont be disappointed.

    I LOVE TWILIGHT ECLIPSE!!!!

    By nicole

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Press Reviews

  • Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

    The movie contains violence and death, but not really very much. For most of its languorous running time, it listens to conversations between Bella and Edward, Bella and David, Edward and David, and Edward and Bella and David. This would play better if any of them were clever conversationalists, but their ideas are limited to simplistic renderings of their desires.
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  • Christchurch Press (Margaret Agnew)

    4 4 out of 5 stars

    The long-awaited third chapter of the Twilight saga - Eclipse - has opened in Christchurch cinemas and Margaret Agnew says it's the best film of the series.
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  • Empire (UK)

    By far the best Twilight film to date, Slade should satisfy the fan base while opening up the series to more sceptical viewers…
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  • Hollywood Reporter

    It took three films, but The Twilight Saga finally nails just the right tone in Eclipse, a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions from Stephenie Meyer's novels with the movies' supernatural trappings.
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  • Los Angeles Times

    The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is back with all of the lethal and loving bite it was meant to have: The kiss of the vampire is cooler, the werewolf is hotter, the battles are bigger and the choices are, as everyone with a pulse (and a few without) knows by now, life-changing.
    Click to read the full review

  • New York Times

    If there is a bit more humor on display here -- some of it evidence that an element of self-conscious self-mockery is sneaking into the franchise -- there is also more violence, and, true to the film’s title, a deeper intimation of darkness. What there isn’t, as usual, is much in the way of good acting, with the decisive and impressive exception of Ms. Stewart, who can carry a close-up about as well as anyone in movies today.
    Click to read the full review

  • NZ Herald (Jacqueline Smith)

    3 3 out of 5 stars

    Thank goodness for Jacob.
    Click to read the full review

  • Rolling Stone (USA)

    For now, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is just one more walk on the mild sides for tweens who dream of being penetrated by cold flesh that will keep them young and cute forever.
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  • Variety (USA)

    Employing a bigger budget, better effects and an edgier director ("Hard Candy's" David Slade), Eclipse focuses on what works -- the stars.
    Click to read the full review

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