Movie review: 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1'
Director Bill Condon gives “Twi-hard” fans the extravagant wedding and romantic honeymoon they've been longing to see with “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1.”
Unfortunately, the Oscar winning director fails to deliver true terror or high-stakes drama in the birthing room or on the battlefield in the first of his two-movie finale in the blockbuster film franchise based on Stephenie Meyer's best-selling paranormal romance novels.
Summit Entertainment takes a page from the Harry Potter movies with “Breaking Dawn,” Meyer's 750-page fourth and final book in the saga, which Condon and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg divided into two movies that were filmed at the same time. Although it would be easy to dismiss the split decision as a mere cash grab, Meyer's book provides ample action for two movies, plus a natural breaking point between the two parts.
The first part opens with the big moment the saga's fervent fans have been eagerly awaiting since the book came out in 2008: Human heroine Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) marries her chivalrous vampire fiance Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) in a lavish ceremony that gives face time to all the series' periphery characters, from Bella's high school frenemy Jessica (Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick) and her dad and mom (Billy Burke and Sarah Clarke) to the various members of the Cullen clan and the fellow human blood-eschewing vampires in the Denali coven.
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