Is there enough to justify dividing Breaking Dawn into two separate parts? I really wondered this before watching, and after watching, I can safely say, nope.
The film is 2 hours long, but you can break it down into 3 segments -- the wedding, the honeymoon, and the pregnancy. Give each segment, say, 30 minutes, or even if you want to milk one of the segments, milk the pregnancy, I guess, an extra five minutes. But clock the film at 90 minutes.
Anyway, we end up getting a lot of weird shots of Bella (Kristen Stewart). just studying her face -- either we are, or she is, or both. Is she anxious? Is she stressed? Just what is going on in her mind? The camera, I guess, works to "tell us." It lets us know the things we can't hear the characters think. Sometimes the actions or dialogue tell us, too, but it's usually the length of the camera shot.
None of those characters have any real depth. It's kind of funny when you watch Bella's "life montage" -- you see the things captured in the previous films, but then there's that giant blank for the rest of her childhood, like she did nothing memorable and nothing happened in her life. They do, at least, show baby Bella with her loving parents.
And I need to reemphasize -- these flat, lifeless characters, my god. None of them have any depth, and Bella herself is a complete blank slate. Why is she so fascinating to anyone, let alone a 100-year-old vampire and a werewolf? Have they never seen a human female before?
Jacob (Taylor Lautner) continues to get angry even after Bella has married her Vampire, but we do learn in a brief "family at the beach scene" that werewolves imprint, and they don't do it purposefully. It just happens. This will be important later when the werewolves are preparing to storm the Vampire mansion, but they can't break the "absolute law," so they simply all just turn around and leave.
Yes, the film looks like it was made with a nice budget, but what was that money spent on? Like I said, the wedding scene, the honeymoon house, and the Vampire mansion. Relatively few sets required, and not a lot of movement. I continue to hate seeing how Edward's (Robert Pattinson) family sit around the house, too. It's so awkward and stagey. Do they really sit like that all the time. It's a big house. Why are they always just sitting like that in one room?
So many times I yelled at the scene: Why don't you try X? or Why don't you just do Y? But no. They can't do or try anything.
Can't wait to watch Part 2. I'll either watch it immediately or wait a couple of years. Haven't decided. The worst movie I've watched in 2026.
Rating: 1/5 stars
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