Well all things must come to an end. And it seems at least today, that the Twilight series has the sun setting on it. Or because we are talking vampires, the sun is rising on it.
This of course has been immensely popular in today's culture and has launched the careers of Kristin Stewart who now garners 25 million a movie. Robert Pattison has done great work outside of this non-challenging series. And Taylor Lautner who ran around with Taylor Swift for a while, and will probably always be remembered as the guy who wears a shirt on screen less than Mathew McConaughey.
So this is it. Bella (Stewart) is now a vampire. She and Edward (Pattison) have gotten married and had a baby. And Jacob (Lautner) still stands around a brutes that Bella is not his girl. But now that she's a vampire, she's really out because he of course is a wolf. But here, the child is in question. Word is out that she is an "immortal". Which means she is a huge threat to the world vampire community because of her still untapped power. So she has sparked a huge civil war within the vampire world. Many believe that she must be killed. Of course Bella, Edward, and the Cullens don't share this view.
So the Cullens assemble a "dream team" of vampires, and the wolf pack decides to back them up against the opposite waring faction of the vampires to protect the child. After the battle, who will win and live on, and possibly happily literally ever after? I'm guessing I know even before I walk in. That's Twilight.
You know for a series that has been creative and imaginative at times, it's a shame it couldn't be at it's end. This movie is far more worried about having all of its major characters getting their action and "Matrix" moment than finishing a story effectively. It all comes down to a major battle scene with the two sides having a huge fight to the death - sort of. And everyone has to get thier minute to fly through the air, and rip off someones head, or something like that. Or to strike their highly dramatic pose on screen while they whip up some kind of power that has be be inserted later by computer.
A whole lot of this looks like people playing dress-up again. I wonder (outside of the payday) if these actors feel foolish while filming these movies. At times looks like kids playing in the back yard. Note to all. There is no shortage of decapitation, and death in this movie. Body burning and pretty intense violence for young viewers. I saw some in this showing around 7 or 8 years old. This movie and the last were borderline R rated for many reasons. But no real blood, and language that is tame keep the PG-13 in tact. But there is a lot of this really inappropriate for little ones.
The good news here is this. Pattison is now free to take off the white makeup and the red lipstick and lip liner, and step out of these movies and be the real star he may be destined to be. I have liked his work outside of this series a lot. Stewart never has to work again, with this and the Snow White/Huntsman thing going. I wonder in the long run, what happens to her? She is always going to be Bella. Lautner will more than likely continue not to wear a shirt much of the time
Twilight Breaking Dawn part 2. It's over. Now all can move on.
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