The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

In this day and age, full of social and cultural uncertainties, you need at least one thing you can count on. And here you have it: beefcake Taylor Lautner is going to take his shirt off again in 5 minutes :) Otherwise, of course, you can't make anything other than a silly and stupid movie based on a silly and stupid novel. Not even Chris Nolan behind the camera could have helped here. (03/28/2013)

When waste is falling from principle anyway, then one grateful maximum for similar reasons. The victorious saga of all the girls' bedrooms rose up at the very end to the movie, where no wtf moment will happen, which would make me scratch my head or twist my head. No confession falls on infertile soil. And those who waited also got a breathtaking battle. The Second Dawn found me ready for a great finale, but unprepared for Bill Condon leading me behind the camera and Melissa Rosenberg leading me behind the script so easily. When the finale manages to replace almost all emotions, sufficiently exhaust the potential of an ultramaniacal Ara, make Jacob a funny and tolerable version of himself, and at one moment even break the hearts of the fans, I have no defenses. The highest rating for the best film of the saga. And just a little out of spite in favor of a series that has many flaws, but I will always stand up for its innocence. (12/10/2012)

For all of the whiners who have the need to point out that the Twilight saga has vampires and werewolves but isn’t horror, I have just two words: CGI, baby. Otherwise, Breaking Dawn – Part 2 is a magnificently goofy series finale and a masterful display of fanservice that, thanks to the final twist, manifests the “to have your cake and eat it” paradox. Cheapness and silliness are combined with WTF moments and spectacular violence, while fake emancipation shakes hands with idealised creepiness. However, all of this is transformed into an enchantingly exuberant experience thanks to the phenomenal atmosphere of the Twilight marathon held at the Aero cinema in Prague (more about that in the review of the first Twilight film). (10/11/2022)

And it’s behind me. Goodbye, I won’t miss you. In any case, I was looking forward to the rest of Twilight, because it was the last episode, but even so it managed to annoy me. And it was with the same trick that irritated me in Cage’s Next. If you saw that, you know. I admit that in that (badly filmed, but that didn’t matter so much) fight I really had a good time, heads being ripped off the popular heroes was enjoyable, no blood, but ok, it’s a kids movie... but what on earth did they do with it at the end?! Why?! After the fight, it’s stringy like cheese fondue from the pot to the fork. I had goosebumps from Michael Sheen (and not in a good way). And everybody talks slowly, walk to the fight slowly, even though they can run really fast and their clothes don’t get torn, for god’s sake, didn’t they see Flash? For some reason, the kid has a CGI mouth for half of the movie. The vampires drive a Volvo because it’s the safest car under the sun. The vampires make a fire because... they’re cold. Probably. Pattinson is Lautner’s father. Everybody lived happily ever after... until the earth’s core disintegrates. Because vampires cannot die and are here forever. That’s the long and the short of it. Burwell’s music is nice and as always is on a completely different level from the rest of it. We have the same temperature now. (03/03/2013)

Together with the first film, it is probably the best part. It has a clear goal and well-developed characters, which I started to somewhat understand after four diverse parts. The ending could be expected, but it doesn't change the fact that Twilight as a saga possibly had a slightly improving tendency towards the end, or at least the creators realized where it belonged. They got rid of unnecessary philosophy and pseudo-monstrous mythology and focused more on the familiar relationship of a handful of vampires fighting against domination. More bearable, better. Occasionally, there was even tension, which is quite something to say. (12/07/2013)