Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is one of those movies that I was glad to let my wife go with a bunch of her friends. I knew that I would eventually end up seeing it when it was out on dvd. The previous installments have built up for this installment and the next one that comes out in November of 2012, and while the past installments have had some decent action sequence moments, I was hoping for more of the same in Breaking Dawn Part 1, yet I was very disappointed that all the focus ended up being on the wedding, honeymoon and the pregnancy. The focus ended up being solely relationship building on Edward and Bella's love, without action or something ended up really missing some key components for it to an alright movie.

The acting ended up being the same as the three previous installments. Kristen Stewart while I think she has had some roles where she has shown the talent she has. I am disappointed in what she brought this time around. I am not sure if it is how Bella is written, but the emotion that is required seems to be nothing more then just to seem kind of sulky and nothing else. Taylor Lautner and Robert pattinson in the end do not bring anything to their roles, I think Lautner serves the only purpose of being eye candy for women watching the movie because it is like they find every reason possible to have him on screen without his shirt. I think the only role which I enjoy is that of Sheriff Swan and in the end he is under used. I feel like there is so mch more to his character and we never get it. The rest of the supporting cast are all forgettable and I can not tell what purpose some of the characters even serve in the end.

The story for Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 ends up being simply focused on Edward and Bella. While part of the pack of werewolves end up beig the antagonist for this installment, nothing really amounts actoin wist to anything so in the end to me it just does not have the bite of having an antagonist especially when compared to what Bella and Edward have gone up against in the first three installments. So with the story for me it ends up being boring because in the end it does not end up building to any true pay off action sequence, so you leave feeling completely unfulfilled. With Bella getting pregnant and the excuses she comes up with to tell her parents for why she can not see them, I do not now why her parents are just fine with sitting back and waiting to hear from her. If I had a child who while on a honeymoon lets me know that she is seeing a specialist in Switzerland because 

of how sick she got on the honeymoon, I would be on the first plane to Switzerland to be there no matter what she said. I know it was wat was needed to keep her parents away I just think they could have come up with something a lot easier to believe a parent would actually do. For me as well the story just really could have used better character development because in the end I did not care what was happening. The important thing is for the story for a movie to take the wiewer on a journey and unfortunately the journey went nowhere at a ridiculously slow speed.

The one good aspect of this movie is the special effects. Adter how cheesy the effects were in the first movie it is good to see that they have put the moenty necessary for the effects to be seamless. I am hoping it is CGI that they used to show how thin Bella got from the baby taking so much nutrition from her. She was truly so thin that it grossed me out a little bit. The other effects of the werewolves I really find to be done decently. I am not sure if they use contacts or if they just alter the eyes in the end, but the red eyes they uses for the vampires is a cool effect. This effect has its biggest pop definitely at the very end of the movie.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 was a movie that while it connected with most women, most men are going to truly dislike because it was a movie that focused on the romantic relationship without much else. So this focus without mcuh else does not give us a journey to go on which while the mvoie is about the relationships it really lacks additional character development and depth. I am giving Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 one and a half buckets of popcorn out of five. With movies based on book series I want the movie to improve as each movie progresses and this movie was far from doing that. This is definitely a movie not worth renting.

-The Movie Man