Directed By: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls)
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen
Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violence including disturbing images, some sensuality and partial nudity
Run Time: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Synopsis: Bella (Stewart) has just been turned into a vampire by her husband, Edward (Pattinson), following the complicated birth of their daughter, Renesmee. While enjoying the vampire life and marriage at first, a threat to their family rises after the Volturi are mistakenly told Bella and Edward's daughter is an illegal vampire child. Knowing a showdown is looming, the Cullen clan scours the globe trying to recruit as many friends as they can to back up their claim that Renesmee is no threat to the Volturi...but will it be enough to avoid a death sentence?
REVIEW
Andrew: Hello readers! Last night Sarah and I
braved the throngs of teenage girls and caught a showing of the fifth and final
entry in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part Two. Sarah, this is
more your cup of tea, so why don’t you quickly break this one down for us?
Sarah: Well as you said this is the fifth
movie in the series, having split the fourth and final book in the series into
two films (as the trend seems to be nowadays). So picking up right where the
last film left off, we see Kristen Stewart’s Bella as a vampire now as she is
discovering her new strengths and abilities. The past four movies we’ve really
seen Bella as a bumbling, clumsy teenager who is super-awkward and now we see
her come into her own, like this was what she was always meant to be.
Edward
(Robert Pattinson) and Bella also have a newborn daughter, Renesmee, who is
alive and well but is growing at an alarming rate and because no one has ever
had experience dealing with a half-human, half-vampire hybrid no one knows if
she’ll keep growing this fast, if she’ll age too quickly, will grow old and die
in a short period of time, etc. And maybe more importantly the Volturi, the
vampire police, are informed of Renesmee’s existence and are lead to believe
she’s an Immortal Child, which is a child that has been bitten and turned,
which is illegal. That’s not the case with Renesmee, so the Cullen clan goes
around the world trying to scrounge up “witnesses” to testify to the Volturi
that she isn’t an Immortal Child. That’s about the first three-quarters of the
film.
