Sabkush Entertainment: Review: EclipseReview: Eclipse
The contest to win Bella’s heart may be more serious than ever, but that doesn’t mean her romantic rivals are entirely without a sense of humour. When Edward (Robert Pattinson) reluctantly delivers his beloved Bella (Kristen Stewart) into the protection of a typically topless Jacob (Taylor Lautner) midway through the third installment of the Twilight saga, the vampire rightly wonders, “Doesn’t he own a shirt?” Leaden and quip-less in the previous entries, the buff werewolf has also grown wittier. As they both watch over Bella in a tent high up on a snowy mountain, Jacob insists that it’s up to him to save her from hypothermia – by slipping into her sleeping bag and warming her up. “Face it,” he says with a grin to the pale-faced Edward, “I am hotter than you.” Of course, that debate will continue to rage on, seeing as the film franchise spawned by Stephenie Meyer’s young-adult novels has at least two more movies to go. In the meantime, Eclipse may find favour with more than the millions of Twihards already devoted to the series. Better staged and more briskly paced than its predecessors, yet just as swoony in its evocation of grand passion and impossible love, Eclipse rates as the most assured piece of filmmaking the franchise has produced. The fact that director David Slade, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and the cast allow for more moments of lightness than Meyer’s angst-ridden universe previously allowed actually makes the material seem richer and wiser. That said, we’re not talking Chekhov here; we’re not up to the moral complexity or stylistic audacity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, either. When we last left Bella and Edward, he had just proposed marriage to her. She agreed, on the condition that she too be made immortal, a stipulation that had already been decreed by the Volturi overlords with whom the couple tangled in New Moon. Edward remains unhappy about this part of the prenuptial agreement, due to the pain and suffering that will be caused by her vampirization.
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