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Twilight
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 37 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Horror | Romance | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Melissa Rosenberg
Stephenie Meyer (novel)
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 21, 2008
DVD: March 21, 2009
Running Time: 120 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality
Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Cam Cigandet, Nikki Reed, and Jackson Rathbone
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen, a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella's soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires comes to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life? (Summit Entertainment)
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What The Critics Said
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Empire Will Lawrence
A sometimes girlie swirl of obsession that will delight fans, this faithful adaptation is after teenage blood, and will most likely hit a box office artery.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
A genuine love story might be difficult for a young audience to handle, but this fantasy is blissful madness--an abstinence fable sexier than sex.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Pattison grows on us as he grows on Bella: His weird mannerisms and nervous delivery stop seeming like quirks and acquire an intensity that's hard to resist by the end.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Twilight has a few gory plot turns - mostly offscreen - and one near-sex scene that may offend a few Amish people, but the rest is maybe 33 percent less wholesome than "High School Musical." It's almost certainly less risque than what you were watching when you were 14. (Cue the soundtrack to "Risky Business.")
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Actually, the movie's a better movie than the book was a book, in part because Meyer struggled to put her characters' galloping emotions into print whereas director Catherine Hardwicke just visualizes them in all their inarticulate purpleness.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Twilight - directed with savvy humor by Catherine Hardwicke - turns vampirism into a metaphor for teen lust.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Tracie Cooper
In terms of bringing the book to life, Twilight is a complete success, so much so that most of the film's flaws work within the context of the story.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
On the whole, Twilight works as both love story and vampire story, thanks mainly to the performances of its principals, Pattinson and Stewart.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
So Twilight isn't a masterpiece -- no matter. It rekindles the warmth of great Hollywood romances, where foreplay was the climax and a kiss was never just a kiss.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Hardwicke still manages to find the sweet spot where Gothic literature and the iPod meet and make goo-goo eyes at each other. Without embarrassment, she and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg dig right into the almost generic simplicity of the story.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Hardwicke has connected so intensely to the Meyer novel that it's hard to imagine anyone else making a better version.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
The best thing in the movie is Stewart. She was the leggy hobo-camp teen in love with Emile Hirsch in "Into the Wild," and she's better at conveying physical longing than any of the actors playing vampires.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Bummer. The vampires have no fangs. The humans are humdrum. The special effects and makeup define cheeseball. And the movie crowds in so many characters from Stephenie Meyer’s book that Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) is less a director than a traffic cop. But there’s a reason that Twilight has already become the movie equivalent of a bestseller: The love story has teeth.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Sara Frederick
None of the movie's flaws will matter. Teenage girls are going to love Twilight,and many are sure to see it more than once.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Twilight isn't an especially good movie, but neither is it an abomination. At times, the dialogue is laugh-aloud bad - almost to the point of being hilarious.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The superfast running effects, with Edward dashing up mountains, or rival, evil vampires swooping here and there at amazing speed, look genuinely cheesy, like the guy running the race in the smart-phone ad. I'm surprised Hardwicke and her colleagues couldn't solve this one more effectively. Set pieces such as a vampire baseball game fall flat as well.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Twilight will mesmerize its target audience, 16-year-old girls and their grandmothers. Their mothers know all too much about boys like this.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
As a life lesson for teenage girls, Twilight (excuse the pun) sucks. As a parable for the dark side of female desire, it's weirdly powerful.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's disappointing when a big-screen romance can't match up to the one in your imagination, at any age.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
An underwhelming vampire romance long on camp but short on emotional insight
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Though Edward and Bella reach certain heights in Twilight, notably during a charming scene that finds them leaping from piney treetop to treetop against the spectacular wilderness backdrop, the story’s moral undertow keeps dragging them down.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
Every generation gets the cinematic vampires it deserves...The current decade, judging from the bloodsuckers on display in Twilight, will be remembered as one of guilt, restraint and denial. It's just not that fun to be undead anymore.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
This adaptation of the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer never rises above the level of a teen soaper on the CW, and its pale, sulky boy toys (Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone) are more silly than scary.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The movie is mainly geared to putting new twists on what John Hughes comedies used to call "sucking face." It will satisfy Meyer's devotees.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Edward's a remarkable young gentleman when you consider the hell he's been through: It turns out he's always 17, his fate to keep repeating high school, forever and ever. If that's my only option, kindly burn me at the stake.
Read Full Review >Premiere Jenni Miller
The religious symbolism couldn't be more obvious (or disturbing). Keep your religion out of our vampires, Hollywood!
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Sometimes sensitive and often silly but really, essentially, beneath his pallor and her panting and their intertwined frustrations, it's just two long hours of coitus interruptus.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Despite questionable casting, wooden acting, laughable dialogue and truly awful makeup, nothing is likely to stop young girls from swarming to this kitschy adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular novel.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Travis Nichols
Those who want something to really sink their teeth into should head home on a rainy day, put on some goth anthems and reread the books.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
A disappointingly anemic tale of forbidden love that should satiate the pre-converted but will bewilder and underwhelm viewers who haven't devoured Stephenie Meyer's bestselling juvie chick-lit franchise.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Chuck Wilson
In the 17-million-copy land of "Twilight," the calling card isn't blood and fangs, but the exquisite, shimmering quiver of unconsummated first love. By that measure, the movie version gives really good swoon.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Genevieve Koski
While the movie attempts to find an compelling middle ground between gothic supernaturalism and teenage romance, it usually winds up stumbling into the inane territory implied by both descriptions.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Robert Koehler
A young and as-yet-unformed actor, Stewart is cast in a role she's simply not ready for, and her effort to work hard – exactly what any actor must hide from the audience – is painfully visible in every scene. By contrast, Pattinson is smooth as glass, a born movie star who only needs to slant his eyes to grab attention.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
In a film that has the courage of its absurdity but not much else, Mr. Pattinson gets the best of what passes for style.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
I've had mosquito bites that were more passionate than this undead, unrequited, and altogether unfun pseudo-romantic riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Q: When is a vampire not a vampire? A: When it goes out in daylight, sees itself in a mirror, doesn’t drink human blood, and still manages to suck.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 447 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
John T. gave it a0:
The fact that this movie is being compared to Romeo and Juliet in any context other than to exemplify everything that is wrong with Twilight is a sign our culture is slowly dying. The series was a horrible, pathetic creation vulgarly posturing as a romance, luring young girls and disillusioned middle-aged women (and men) into its abominable bosom, whispering false promises of eternal love and devotion.
Dan gave it a0:
Possibly the most laughable attempt at either a romance or a vampire film. Aside from the obviously laughable effects(high speed piggy back?) and the combination of awkward acting and a stale script leaves nothing else but some stock footage for the north american tourist board. The actors shuffle and mope their way though this overly long film. I am sure the frothing Twilight fans will just keep bumping this rating, but nothing can excuse this dire epic. Comparing it to Lost Boys is also faintly ridiculous as the humour in Lost Boys was intended, any humour derived from Twilight is sadly unintentional.
Sierra A gave it a10:
There is only one way to watch this movie: as a comedy. It's hilariously bad. Trying to watch it as anything but will give you headaches.
Amber S gave it an8:
I read the book because of how much I loved the movie! The only reason that I gave it an eight is because the film didn't have enough budgeting for better visual effects. I think that it is sad that we live in a world where even our fictional characters are stereotyped. Just because someone a long time ago said that vampires are supposed to brun in sunlight and can only live off human blood then no one else's idea of a vampire is acceptable now? I guess all aliens are supposed to be green with black eyes and big heads too. Well there goes all the alien movies ever made. The point was to be different and not copy everyone else's ideas. You don't have to like the movie, but at least give some respect to the writer for stepping outside the box.
Sebastian C gave it a1:
Bar none, one of the worst films ever made. I understand this is a teen flick, but the script is appalling, the acting is dreadful, the directing is terrible and the whole thing is just physically painful.
Jannella o gave it a9:
I love robert and twilight actors. i love the movie and books.HAkeem your so mean i understand your opionon but i think they did a really good job lets face it I have a crush on rob and taylor and well you know thyre hot and always will be hot now you were hot like them which your probably not. then f off
Morgan gave it a0:
If you haven't seen this movie already, I would suggest you avoid it at all costs. Honestly, don't even bother downloading it illegally -- it will only waste the precious space on your computer. Acting? I've seen better acting in high school plays, maybe even elementary plays: each and every line was flat, emotionless and the delivery -- let alone the awful, awful dialogue -- left me literally laughing aloud. And special effects? It was like I was watching a satire of the movie rather than the actual movie. Plot? Full of holes and loose ends before it even made the silver screen, one would think that the screen writer would have patched a few of them up. In conclusion: I left the theatre with bruises on my arms and the words, "Shh, all the pre-teen girls will beat you up if you don't stop laughing" still ringing in my ears.
