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Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 38 critic 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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >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…
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
One of the better multiplex options of this legendarily dismal summer.
Read Full Review >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?
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Eclipse, like its two predecessors, is ham-fisted and obvious, a mass-market entertainment with a frustrating lack of imagination.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The Twilight star's line-readings have become like Edward and his bloodsucking kin: They lack a pulse.
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
The Twilight Saga comes close to that sweet spot between swooning silliness and special effects slaughter with Eclipse.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The movie is still incredibly silly but in a more boisterous way, like a comic book come to life.
Read Full Review >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?
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
More happens in Eclipse than in the previous "Twilight" zone, "New Moon," and yet it's duller
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall
I honestly thought Eclipse would be different, after "New Moon" showed stirrings of cinematic life.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
