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Eclipse is the beset Twilight movie so far and now I'm starting to give this series a little mercy. Yes, the writing is still bad, the CGI is awful, there's no chemistry between the leads, there's a lot of laughable dialogue, and terrible characters, but I enjoyed the movie and that's what movies are supposed to do. I'm actually going to watch the next movie with an open mind even if this movie wasn't that good.

It's been billed as the biggest film of the year and perhaps it will be, but it has some stiff competition from the likes of Harry Potter coming this winter, so let's see if Eclipse really deserves that prestigious title.

The vampire and werewolf love saga has been bitterly disappointing so far with a dull first instalment and a hideously depressing second. Add to this some excruciatingly painful running times of over two hours and you have death by celluloid.

But perhaps I'm being a little unfair; this third instalment has been based on perhaps the most exciting book of the four in the series so it already has a good starting point and some convincing performances from the actors really do make this film a huge leap ahead of what preceded it.

The storyline to this film is pretty much non-existent but director David Slade does a good job of turning zilch into another depressing, but well made two hour love fest. Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen), Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan) and Taylor Lautner (Jacob) return as the three main leads and their love triangle becomes even more confusing this time around, with frowning faces and awkward kisses galore. Add to this an army of newborn vampires ready to rip the very flesh of Bella Swan's bones and it's getting pretty tense down in Forks.

Sadly, even with a whole army of vampires and werewolves fighting in the finale, this small increase in action doesn't take away from the fact that the film drags in more than one place with blocks of dialogue that feel as if they're going to last a lifetime. It's unfortunate as the action pieces look excellent and the CGI, especially in the werewolves has improved leaps and bounds between New Moon and Eclipse. This shamefully vain dialogue with unnecessary close-ups of Robert Pattinson's face, Kristen Stewart's eyelashes and Taylor Lautner's chest are surely there just to appeal to the female fans and do nothing to progress the story.

It is these main three characters that hinder the film; their stilted dialogue and mediocre acting overshadow the rest of the cast who are all superb. Newcomer Bryce Dallas Howard playing red head vampire Victoria is seriously underused along with the whole Cullen flock who are not given enough room to breathe between the heavy central dialogue. Their acting is fantastic, why not use them more? Thankfully, it isn't all tears before bedtime with some well-timed comic humour from Bella's dad, Charlie. Played by Billy Burke, he is the only character of the used variety that leaps off the screen and he does so well, playing to his strengths as an actor.

Overall, Eclipse moves the game on but only very slowly. David Slade has crafted a beautifully shot movie with some excellent action pieces; but it still remains dull as ditch water because of bland performances from the lead cast and chunky dialogue. It's bound to please fans but biggest film of the year? I think we'll be seeing a certain boy wizard holding that honour for 2010.

I've really tried to understand why these movies and books are so popular. I read the first book, and though it was a somewhat fun read, I didn't' see what all the hoopla was about and didn't bother reading all the others.

The first Twilight I found to be entertaining, New Moon was a snoozefest, and now Eclipse found me straining to keep my eyes open. In all honesty, it just seems like nothing ever really happens. Yes, there are some short action sequences, and it was interesting to get some background information on some of the Cullens, but that's about it.

I've really tried to understand why Edward and Jake are so into Bella, and I really don't get it. She's not that interesting of a person and she's always walking around in what seems to me to be a gloomy state. Really, guys, just move on! Also, (just as a sidebar), if the werewolves shorts can magically reappear after they turn back into a human, why do they run around without shirts? Shouldn't they reappear too? Just a thought.

It also seems to me as if the actors are bored in this film too. Especially Kristen Stewart. She seems as though she would rather be anywhere than making another Twilight movie.

But I think the overall problem is that there are really no surprises, no twist and turns in any of the movies. It's all pretty straightforward and predictable. Quite honestly, I find the TV show "The Vampire Diaries" to be far superior to Twilight in almost every way. It has the same premise, more or less (mortal girl torn between her love for two supernatural beings), except that you need a score card to keep up with what's going on. Every week is a roller-coaster ride, which is really enjoyable, and you completely understand why everyone is into the lead girl. And that's what I thought Twilight should have been like.

I guess at the end of the day, you can never underestimate the power of marketing, both for the books and the movies, or the buying power of the average teenage girl.

Sweet lord almighty it did not disappoint. To me at least, this was easily the funniest film of the series so far, because while Bella and Edward in the first film was funny, and Bella and Jacob in the second was much less so, somehow all three of them together are absolute fireworks.

Not because they suddenly have chemistry or anything, Bella is still dryer than the corpses of the whole Cullen family, Edward is still awkward and looks like he never wants to be there, and Jacob is now looking at a restraining order and a few years behind bars.

And yet again nothing happens for the first half of it...and yet, these two things are it's greatest strengths. The first half of the film desperately trying to come up with any reason it can to make some people think Bella will ever get with Jacob is hysterical, and when all three of them are in a scene together, hoo boy. Some of the most glorious casting ever, methinks.

Other than that, there is also some baffling directing and sound effects, the kind where you really have to wonder how it was even possible for something to be intentionally directed like that, the CGI is atrocious, the dialogue is as horrendous as ever, and basically, it's more Twilight. If that's what you want after the first two, then great.

And believe me, I did want more, cause I am genuinely having a blast with these abominations. Bring on Breaking Dawn.

Oh god, Edward Cullen, you're so damn hot. Take my virginity, take it, take it now! But wait, no, I'm so conflicted. Jacob Black is also hot. In fact, he might be hotter than you. What should I do, Edward? Should I give in to you, with your milky white skin, your smouldering eyes and chiselled chin, or should I....should I give in to Black, with his ripped six-pack and Hawaiian glow?

Oh Edward, you know I don't want to hurt you, it's just that a girl's virginity is a big deal. I want to lose it with someone special, with someone I love. It's not like I can lose my virginity twice, Edward. It's not like my virginity can grow back. Unless....no. No, you can't be serious Edward. Regrow my virginity? Is that possible, Eddie? Surely it's not. What? I can remain in a state of perpetual virginity by reading Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series? Oh Edward, sweet, precious Edward, what a genius you are! Call Jacob, call Riley, and come hither yourself Edward, for tonight all beasts dine on the blood of Bella Swann, the most chaste harlot a mortal did ever spawn.

10/10 – Masterpiece.

There's an army, at least ten, being gathered in a pen, to wage war against the Cullens, though it's mainly full of dullens, as Victoria plots falls, of the vamps and animals, Isabella gets quite cold, and the arguments unfold, it's a pretty poor part three, piling up lots of debris, little method to the madness, there are plains that have less flatness.

I don't hate the Twilight movies as much as others do, but I don't care for them either. The first was average, the second was pretty poor and the worst so far and while Eclipse is the best yet that isn't saying much. I haven't read the books the movies are based on, apart from a couple of pages of one which didn't spark my interest in reading the rest, but my sister has and likes the books and movies, though she says she likes the books more.

Eclipse does look good. I think the scenery in general is splendid and the cinematography and editing is much better too. The special effects are also an improvement, they don't feel as rushed here. The score is also very nice, courtesy of Howard Shore it is probably the best score in any of the Twilight movies. David Slade also does an above serviceable job directing, Eclipse is by far the best directed movie of the Twilight saga as of now.

However, Eclipse still has the same major problems as the first two did, but not quite as bad. The dialogue is still very clunky, Pattinson and his family have some pretty good lines but Stewart and Lautner's dialogue are quite awkward and in general the delivery is too. The story is more involving than in New Moon, which was not only sluggish but almost a non-event in terms of story, but there is the odd disjointed part particularly in the middle act and in the more "romantic" bits. Stewart and Pattinson have a decent chemistry, but Stewart still looks awkward with Lautner, while the action scenes felt rushed and the pace is still incredibly sluggish especially in the middle.

The acting is very mixed. Pattinson and his family I was fine with this time around, and Bryce Dallas Howard is a welcome addition to the cast as Victoria. Billy Burke while somewhat underused is decent as Charlie as well. Conversely, there are some weak links too. Taylor Lautner does little more than take his shirt off and say some clunky lines, while Kristen Stewart while better than she was in New Moon with a marginally more expressive face gives a rather lacklustre performance as Bella as she does have a whiny delivery here and there are still the awkward pauses between each line.

So overall, it has its strengths but also its weaknesses, but it is watchable and while it could have been a lot better with better scripting and pacing Eclipse is the best so far of the saga. 5/10 Bethany Cox

In Forks, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) proposes Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) that actually wants to become immortal and is divided between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Meanwhile, in Seattle, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) is raising an army of newborn vampires to destroy Bella and revenge the death of her beloved James, who was destroyed by Edward. However the killings are calling the attention of the fearful Volturis that are coming to Forks. Edward and his clan and Jacob and his pack are forced to join forces to destroy Victoria and her army.

"Eclipse" is a terrible sequel of the Twilight Saga, with a silly teen romance and poor performances. I have not read the novels of Stephenie Meyer, but I liked the two first films, "Twilight" and "New Moon". However, "Eclipse" is a boring soap opera with average special effects and two terrible lead actors. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil):"A Saga Crepúsculo: Eclipse" ("The Saga of Twilight: Eclipse")

Eclipse isn't excellent but neither terrible. This adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's book falls somewhere in the middle, between the 2008's Twilight and the emotional oasis of 2009's New Moon. The Twilight series is often too much melodramatic but gets usually to arouse amorous emotions and thrills. Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and new series director David Slade (Hard Candy) try to use the whole teenage material into a coherent shape, with decent results. The inconsistency comes from tone results that end up being even lethargic at a point, so the forth installment will really have to be different otherwise fans will start getting tired of it.

People who have read my reviews for "Twilight" and "New Moon" know I'm not a fan of the series. But at the same time, I'm not a hater. I'm basically indifferent, and am only watching them as they become available for free to see what the fuss is all about.

I found the first film to be halfway decent (nowhere near as bad as the reputation), but it did suffer from sloppy direction (courtesy Catherine Hardwicke, whom has never impressed me) and a boring storyline that didn't take advantage of the material. The second film was much more competently made, and had top notch direction, but suffered from a painfully boring script and hollow characters, and ended up being one of my most hated films of recent memory as a result.

I was surprised to find that this entry was actually the best of the series thus far. Directed by the talented David Slade, this film delivers a suitable tone and style, and actually has a sense of completion. It didn't feel as vapid and lifeless as the first two entries.

When the evil Victoria (the gorgeous Bryce Dallas Howard) begins creating an army of vicious "newborn" vampires to get revenge against Bella and the Cullens, Edward (Robert Pattinson) is forced to team up with his rival Jacob the werewolf (Taylor Laughtner), in order to protect his love Bella (Kristen Stewart). That's basically the important plot line. They do try to add tension to the relationship of Bella and Edward, and make you guess more if Bella should be with Jacob, but it isn't important.

As I said, this is a well made film, courtesy of Slade's direction. It feels more confident and more secure with itself. The visuals are actually quite remarkable, and the battle sequences are well done, although still too brief. It is simply the best-made film in the series, and this is what makes it the best.

However, it still has a large share of problems.

For one, the characters are still infuriating. Bella still comes off as a complete jerk, Jacob is tedious and unlikable, Edward is still too much of a "wuss" at times. The main characters just aren't compelling, and I found myself worried more for the secondary characters (particularly the sweethearted vampire Alice, played by Ashley Greene, who is one of the only truly likable characters in the franchise). Also, the villainess, though played well, is underdeveloped beyond belief. Howard tries her hardest, but Victoria has always been uninteresting since her introduction- she's simply evil for the sake of being evil.

Also, the film wastes too much time on the romance, which was basically "completed" in the second film. Dragging out the "Who will Bella be with?" storyline is pointless, and even though the script was written by a woman, the film feels very misogynistic at times.

The writing is as corny and cringe-inducing as always. The film is still very boring, the acting is still a mixed bag. It's all very mediocre.

But as I said, this is easily the best-made film in the series, and is arguably the first entry to actually accomplish something of a plot. It was very watchable, even though the series feels like a Hallmark TV movie, with lame production values and bad writing. And for that, it gets credit, and I will say I kind of enjoyed it in a way.

I give it a just-slightly-above average 6 out of 10. This series still does not deserve all of the attention it gets, but it's OK.

Even compared with the previous two, which were rubbish, this one is disappointing. There were many young girls in the cinema watching it yet even they found reasons to giggle and snare at some stupidity and bloated-ness of the script and the entire premise. This is one stupid, ridiculous film which in addition takes itself seriously. The main actress is pretty attractive, but she does not act well, comes across as wooden. Her vampire partner is downright ridiculous and the wolf admirer is unintentionally funny too, sporting a naked torso for the girl audience even when snow is falling. The action scenes are unconvincingly mellow, the script is rubbish and soundtrack poor. I do not know what Dakota F. is doing here, her role is just a few lines recited standing, without acting skills necessary. How sad that this stupid and poor film-making takes the box office in a stride.

I'm not really into the Twilight Saga, having only seen Twilight and now Eclipse.

Five minutes into the movie I could see how boring it was going to turn out.

The acting is still wooden and to be honest I think the actors don't get into their characters. They try but I think there is a thin veil of hatred for the characters and to them it is just a franchise and money on the side.

What I mean is I saw The Runaways with Kristen Stewart and Daktoa Fanning and both actors have far more emotions, expressions and seem to really get into character as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie. While on Eclipse their skills are so wooden, Kristen as Bella is still a blank canvas only slightly going "Oh no Jacob don't fight Edward" with a stunned fish expression.

Robert tries to capture Edward but as I said they seem sick of the character.

The fight scene was the only worth while scene. Sorry this isn't going to be in my DVD collection.

To my mind, this was the best one. Also realized how surprised and proud I was at this movie for having an actual plot. A real plot (more or less), where something happens! This was really astonishing to me after watching the Fifty Shades movies. I think it also contains the most scenes of Taylor Launter shirtless out of all the other ones, so if you're planning on watching for such purposes it is recommended to skip the two previous ones and jump straight into this.

Honestly I didn't think this movie would be such a disappointment considering "Bella", "Edward" and "Jakob" has had two attempts already in the previous movies to learn how to act. Considering the hype revolving this movie I really thought it would differ more from the first and second one, but to me it only feels like one prolonged version of the first. Besides lacking in plot, the movie also has to much romance without anything leading up to it. It's like Edward and Bella are attached to each others lips to the extent of being unable to communicate with oneanother. It's not that I don't like romance quite the contrary, It's just hard for me to believe in them being In love, since they never seem to connect in any way. Also I really don't like the cop-father what's his face, he reminds me of Deputy Doofy from scary movie.

Im not even going to mention all the incorrect facts "Stephanie Meyer" writes about vampires, but it is tedious work to try to ignore while watching the movie.

So in conclusion I urge everyone who's not a twelve-year old girl on acid, not to waste you precious time watching this movie. It doesn't matter how many awards it has received or records it has broken, people who enjoy this and consider it to be a movie of the vampire genre are (no offense) retarded.

Still it get's a 4 because I'm in generous mood and despite the fact that "Bella" looks like a junky she's kind of cute in a cancer kind of way:)

I've seen the first two movies of the Twilight Saga so I knew what I was expecting but far out this film was atrocious..bad acting, action scenes were terrible and the whole thing just stunk. I guess if your'e a teenage girl aged 11-15 this would be suitable but for any adult this film should seriously be avoided..you can tell this is targeted at teen audiences that's for sure young attractive cast, emo love story gone wrong e.t.c, I was left feeling like I just wasted 124 mins of my life the dialogue lacked enthusiasm and half the time the actors just looked like they just didn't want to be in the movie. Put this saga to rest before any more minds are poisoned

The extremely successful romantic franchise mostly if not entirely for teenage girls has reached a midpoint, with this the third in the series and two more to come. How is it doing? Well, the strategy is good, this time: some violent, if blurred, battle scenes; some out and out sensual attraction -- and physical contact -- between Bella and her two boyfriends, the delicate vampire and fiery werewolf. They come face to face with each other and with the object of their affections, still with no thought of becoming sexual, following the series pattern, with Bella exchanging some warm kisses with both boys, nothing more. The movie begins with Bella and Edward (Kirsten Stweart and Robert Pattinson) in a dim but flowery meadow, making out, while Bella reads Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice," whose proffered dual choice as to how the world will end reflects her oscillation between the chilly but sweet and pretty Edward Cullen, the vampire beau, and his rival, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a fiery werewolf, a hotblooded mammal.

"Some say the world will end in fire,/Some say in ice./From what I've tasted of desire/I hold with those who favor fire./But if it had to perish twice,/I think I know enough of hate/To say that for destruction ice/Is also great/And would suffice."

(Bella's reading this is the one allusion to the fact that she actually has subjects to study in high school, including English.) Twilight: Eclipse does not rise to the disturbing apocalyptic level of Frost's poem, but it does hint at the radical dilemma Bella faces in choosing between the tow boys. Edward is her first love. But he offers no warmth. "Face it, I'm much hotter than you," Jacob gets to say to Edward up on a mountain, when Bella is freezing in a tent and needs a cuddle to avoid hypothermia.

It may not really matter to devotes, but it's more obvious than ever that of the series principals, only Kiristen Steweart as Bella is much of an actor. Robert Pattinson as the romantic vampire seems only barely possessed of any kind of reality. As the Indian-werewolf clan boyfriend Taylor Lautner at least, as required, is lusty, angry, and alive and is speaking in his own accent, unlike the London-born Pattinson. Unfortunately Lautner has a whiny childish intonation unworthy of his torso, Bella, or being a semi-mythical creature.

Bella has bargained to marry Edward if they can consummate their love, after high school graduation, and she can join him in eternal vampire-hood, a fate he has always wanted to spare her, for reasons he has yet to reveal. Old fashioned Edward gives Bella a ring which was his mother's. But graduation still seems far away. She is increasingly tempted by Jacob, or at least he insists she is. But that remains up in the air. It's all about titillation.

In the background other stuff is necessary as temporary distraction from the fact that when this episode is over we're still pretty close to square one. Jacob and Edward and their respective clans team up to deal with an invasion of a sudden horde of vampire "newborns" who descend from elsewhere, attracted by Bella, for some reason. We learn that in their first few months of vampire-hood is when vampires are at their most powerful. These freshly-mined and dangerously violent blood-suckers clash with the Cullens and the werewolves in their wild four-legged form for some rapid-fire action. It's all so pumped up with CGI and loud music none of it makes sense, but young people are used to this kind of trickery and don't know what they're missing: it's like a video game, but one that's not interactive.

Apart from being better received critically than Twilight number two, number one one had a big advantage: the whole concept was new then, and the appearance of vampire siblings in a Pacific Northwest high school had a campy novelty about it. I liked the idea that the weather up there was so gray vampires would choose the region to live in, with the Cullens able to inhabit a woodsy modern villa with lots of windows. Edward wasn't even there for most of number two. Now he is back, and the rivalry between the two boy-men livens things up. Trouncing the rival outsider newborn vampires provides action that has little effect except for providing Edward and Jacob a chance to cooperate with each other. Bella talks to Edward, Bella talks to Jacob, and Jacob talks to Edward. All three have zeroed in on each other more than in number one and number two. But has anything changed? Nor really. All this may make more sense in the Stephenie Meyer novels -- but mus be pretty darn silly there too.

None of these Twilight movies makes much sense without filtering them through a teenage girl's viewpoint, according to which, evidently, boys are very attractive but also scary. It feels as though the larger action that takes place is just a metaphor for stuff outside Bella's real understanding, a world of danger and confusion, when her involvement with these two boys, with their opposite-pole natures, is danger and confusion enough. David Spade is good at keeping the action flowing; not much can make up for the shortcomings in the acting category. Striking closeups happen throughout of the wolf clan, the vampires, and Bella. Visually the vampires win out: the images seem sickly and twilight-dim nearly all the time. Natural light and shadow, the essential stuff of real and traditional photography, are not to be found. Maybe the next installment will be in 3-D (the way things are going) and it will all look even more unreal.