Rating of
3/4
Better than expected!
MovieAddict - wrote on 12/25/12
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the fifth and last installment in the Twilight franchise and is truly a love letter to fans. If you're a fan, it's the perfect end to the franchise. It's truly Bella's movie and her emergence into being a vampire fun to watch, with Bella in perfect control, if perhaps a mite thirsty. I was delighted to see the clumsy, awkward, slightly annoying girl from the other films replaced with a seductive, bad ass woman with a fierce mean protective streak.
The story provided for answers to questions that I didn't know that I had, like the whole immortal child story and provided some insight into the Volturi zero tolerance policy. I did find that baby Renesmee was a bit too animated for my taste so it was hard to appreciate what was supposed to be extracted from her ability to communicate. Thankfully she was not a baby for very long but the whole imprinting on the new born was a little freaky if I give it too much thought, so I stopped over thinking it.
The film trots along at a good pace and I enjoyed the comedy added to a couple of scenes for example: when Bella tosses Jacob about after realizing he had imprinted on Renesmee and when she destroyed Emmett at arm wrestling. The ending was definitely a shocker but Jacob going shirtless isn’t (another scene I quite enjoyed). A fun watch indeed.
