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Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The

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Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Fantasy  |  Romance  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Melissa Rosenberg

Directed by: David Slade

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 30, 2010

Running Time: 124 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality

Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, and Dakota Fanning

In Eclipse, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life. (Summit Entertainment)

What The Critics Said

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83

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

The 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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80

Empire Will Lawrence

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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80

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

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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80

Variety Peter Debruge

Employing 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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80

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

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.

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75

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

If 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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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

With 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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75

New York Post Kyle Smith

Dispenses 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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70

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

One of the better multiplex options of this legendarily dismal summer.

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70

Slate Dana Stevens

It'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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70

Time Mary Pols

Certainly 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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70

Village Voice Dan Kois

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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70

The New York Times A.O. Scott

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.

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70

Boxoffice Magazine Amy Nicholson

Eclipse has its cheesecake and eats it, too.

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63

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Kevin C. Johnson

Why the bloodsucker and the wolf boy treat Bella as if she's the cat's meow is still a mystery.

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63

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Eclipse, like its two predecessors, is ham-fisted and obvious, a mass-market entertainment with a frustrating lack of imagination.

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63

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

The Twilight star's line-readings have become like Edward and his bloodsucking kin: They lack a pulse.

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63

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

The Twilight Saga comes close to that sweet spot between swooning silliness and special effects slaughter with Eclipse.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The movie is still incredibly silly but in a more boisterous way, like a comic book come to life.

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60

NPR Bob Mondello

There 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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60

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

Forget 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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60

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

The 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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50

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

Eclipse, 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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50

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

More than just corny. Eclipse is boring.

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50

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

The 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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50

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

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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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Genevieve Koski

While Eclipse’s action highs are higher, its expositional lows are lower, particularly during the numerous scenes featuring Lautner.

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50

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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50

USA Today Claudia Puig

The 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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50

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

These 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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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

More happens in Eclipse than in the previous "Twilight" zone, "New Moon," and yet it's duller

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50

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

The 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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50

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

“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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50

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

Melissa Rosenberg's screenplay is faithful enough to Meyer's soap-operatic inclinations, but I kind of wish it weren't.

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50

Chicago Reader Noah Berlatsky

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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50

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

I 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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42

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

I honestly thought Eclipse would be different, after "New Moon" showed stirrings of cinematic life.

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40

Time Out New York Staff (Not credited)

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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 4.8 (out of 10) based on 145 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

ine (L) cortes gave it a10:
Eclipse is the greatest movie in the world. When I saw it for the first time I really wanted to watch it again and again. I went to the theare the first day it was played. At the time my friends and I got out the cinema we went and book others tickets for us to watch it at the passing two days. I think the saga of twilight its really good and I wouldn't change anything of it.

Chad S. gave it a6:
The third installment of the "Twilight" saga is another total eclipse of the genre, the horror genre, which is dominated by male narratives. "Eclipse" has a feminine one. At least the vampires and wolves and the Joan Jett impersonator don't sing like the "monster" in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera". At least "Twilight" isn't a musical...yet. So there's no need to bang on this franchise for not being Katherine Bigelow's "Near Dark", or Josh Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", until, that is, Bella and Edward perform a love duet sometime in the future on a Broadway stage. After all, boys aren't the only one who need mythical heroes. If "Star Wars" was intended for girls, Darth Vader would have used "The Force" on Princess Leia, in a heartbeat, to lure her away from Luke Skywalker. Love would become as important as conquering the galaxy to the foes, who are, of course, both related to the only readily available female for pro-creation as a preventive measure against the sort of scene in "Eclipse" where the interspecies lovers polarize the sexes in a violet field with their languorous talk about themselves. If Leia wasn't his spawn, Vader would have definitely tried to f*** the princess, but he's locked into a male narrative which removes that possibility by default. While there's action in "Eclipse", it never gets in the way of the love that exists among this latter-day "Jules and Jim", who both pine for Catherine(played by Jeanne Morreau in the 1962 Francois Truffaut classic). Edward and Jacob, who both pine for Bella, are in perfect position to bridge the desires of the moviegoing sexes when this precarious trio are caught in a snowstorm, where the vampire, because he's a raspberry popsicle, employs the wolfboy to warm up his shivery girlfriend. If Jacob and Bella went all the way, it would, for all intents and purposes, precipitate a battle to the death, which is what the material cries out for. But the "Twilight" series is "Star Wars" for girls, and there are preventive measure in place to appease the core audience. So they cuddle. Edward can handle abs.

Spencer W. gave it a2:
The Twilight Saga previously consisted of 2 mediocre films.Well now it has a bad one too.My first concern with the movie is its budget.It seems that when the director was given the over 90 million budget his first tought was,ok we gotta have an epic action.Well at the cost of some good action scenes the plot goes nowhere and the characters,especially Edward are as dimensional as a piece of paper and as intersting as a rock.This Vampire romance almost hits bottom.Do yourself a favor and don't watch it.

Daphne A. gave it a9:
Great movie! Eclipse has all the intensity it promised. All of the actors/actresses are awesome and as always, I leave the theatre waiting for the rest of the story.

Francesca R. gave it a10:
Best of all of the Twilight movies. I never got what all the rave was, now I do. Yes, its corny, its like the Clueless of Vampires but its amazing.

Fabian K. gave it a9:
The first one was mediocre, the second was bland, but Twilight franchise finally found its tone with Eclipse. Very good romance flick.

Mark M. gave it a0:
Bring a vuvuzela to a screening of this movie.

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