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83The story, at heart, is earnest and humorless teen romantic glop, but its feelings aren't fake, and the movie is compulsively watchable; it has a passionflower intensity.
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80It 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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80By 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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80The 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.
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80Employing a bigger budget, better effects and an edgier director ("Hard Candy's" David Slade), Eclipse focuses on what works -- the stars.
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75Dispenses with much of the caramel gooeyness of the first two episodes in favor of decent action, some heartfelt tender moments and even a splash of wit. This time they're actually Twi-ing.
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75If Slade doesn't necessarily advance the medium with this installment, he nonetheless advances the franchise, with enough lucidity and skill that he's persuaded at least one erstwhile agnostic to take a stand.
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75With the bigger story and more fully developed relationships than the previous films, this is the first Twilight film that feels like a real movie in its own right.
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70Eclipse has its cheesecake and eats it, too.
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70One of the better multiplex options of this legendarily dismal summer.
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Eclipse is the least laughable installment yet in the series, and director David Slade efficiently delivers the fan service that Twihards require.
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70If 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.
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70It's a question of whether or not the movie speaks to your secret, unregulated, inherently ridiculous experience of identification and desire--not who you should be, but who you are. Does the warm blood of a teenager still flow beneath your icy grown-up flesh?
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70Certainly it's the lightest and brightest -- everyone is still chaste, but the movie is actually sexy in parts. It appears to have embraced its own sense of camp and is consistently funny in an intentional way. For the first time, I found myself curious to see what comes next.
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63Eclipse, like its two predecessors, is ham-fisted and obvious, a mass-market entertainment with a frustrating lack of imagination.
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63The Twilight star's line-readings have become like Edward and his bloodsucking kin: They lack a pulse.
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63The movie is still incredibly silly but in a more boisterous way, like a comic book come to life.
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63The Twilight Saga comes close to that sweet spot between swooning silliness and special effects slaughter with Eclipse.
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63Why the bloodsucker and the wolf boy treat Bella as if she's the cat's meow is still a mystery.
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60There are better special effects than last time, and Bella gets to be brave when it counts. All of which should be like a freshly opened vein for fans -- especially as it results in Eclipse ending up almost exactly where it started, with weddings still to come. Can you wait?
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60The truth is, almost everyone planning to see Eclipse will know how things end before the opening credits even appear. So Slade and his cast can be proud that they consistently keep us involved anyway.
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60Forget Team Edward vs. Team Jacob. I'm backing Team David, as in David Slade, the director who has finally managed to breathe some life into the "Twilight" series, heretofore a deadly dull undead undertaking.
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50Eclipse, while admittedly an improvement over last year's barely coherent "New Moon," only adds insult to injury. Nothing so grand as a real eclipse, it's more just a massive blind spot.
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50For 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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50The 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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50More happens in Eclipse than in the previous "Twilight" zone, "New Moon," and yet it's duller
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50Melissa Rosenberg's screenplay is faithful enough to Meyer's soap-operatic inclinations, but I kind of wish it weren't.
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50The huge contingent of girls -- and women with girlish fantasies -- who liked the first two movies will doubtless enjoy Eclipse. But this third go-round won't make Twihard converts of the rest of us.
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50These movies are more about the experience of hearing girls and women who should know better holler at the screen. They could just as well be at a concert.
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50More than just corny. Eclipse is boring.
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50The supposedly epic battle the entire film builds toward – the single action set-piece – is a ho-hummer. Fire and ice, turns out, was an oversell: Think tepid tap water instead.
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50The fun thing about Eclipse is watching Lautner emerge as the Han Solo of this series, getting all the laughs and calling Edward and Bella on their preciousness.
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50I can't pretend that the third episode instilled a fever in my blood, but it didn't leave me cold. For the first time in the series I felt I'd seen a real movie.
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As werewolf Jake, Taylor Lautner does his best to salvage things by showing his bare chest through almost the entire movie, and the rest of the cast struggles gamely, but the script sucks the life out of them. This is definitely the worst installment of the franchise to date.
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While Eclipse's action highs are higher, its expositional lows are lower, particularly during the numerous scenes featuring Lautner.
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50"Twilight" is essentially an adolescent female fantasia about coming to terms with one's sexuality. There I've said it. And I'm sure no one else has ever said it.
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42I honestly thought Eclipse would be different, after "New Moon" showed stirrings of cinematic life.
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You brace for a certain amount of hand-wringing, lip-biting and pinup posing aimed at middle-schoolers; given the way that Eclipse initially suggests a potential for reaching beyond a preteen audience, you just wish the beefcake and cheese didn't eventually overshadow its better qualities.
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