The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

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	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Bill Condon (Mr Holmes, Beauty and the Beast)
	Actors: Kristen Stewart (Snow White and the Huntsman), Robert Pattinson (Cosmopolis), Taylor Lautner
	Country: USA
	Genre: Romance, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 06.02.2018, VOD, 11" tablet screen
Synopsis: Bella (Stewart), Edward (Pattinson), Jacob (Lautner) and the whole Cullen clan are getting ready to a final confrontation.
Review: Against the prejudice I had, this second part to the conclusion of the Twilight saga (see review of the first part) nicely wraps up the whole thing. But don't get me wrong: I still find the romance extremely cheesy (at least the menage-a-trois is over), the pace super-slow and the vampires too good-looking and full of good intentions. The special effects are also strangely used and badly incorporated in ever-so-unreadable action scenes. But at least after four movies of wandering, now the characters know themselves who they are and what they want, even though I had to rewind to the 30-second part where is explained why what is going to happen is going to happen. As usual, the logic behind it is vague enough so that whatever happens will fit the story. As in the previous movies, I was always surprised by how Bella is accepted by her family-in-law. Maybe we are too used to the same type of vampires who just stay by themselves, and that for one may be a refreshing look at the genre. I also realized that the interactions with the family, with the rest of the clan as well as the introduction and background story of those are probably much more interesting in the original novel that in the movie, where only a very limited time can be dedicated to such details. You would think that a 5-movie saga would have the time for such developments but it seems too much of it was used for romantic discussions and - like some say - pointless staring. Finally I liked how the final battle was depicted, even though I laughed at the drawing below, because it is a bit unfair. I was much less annoyed by the scale of the battle than by the confusing way in which is was shown in spite of its limited number of participants. Lessons could have been taken from The Return of the King at least to that regard.
Rating: 5 /10