Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
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Critics Consensus: Slow, joyless, and loaded with unintentionally humorous moments, Breaking Dawn Part 1 may satisfy the Twilight faithful, but it's strictly for fans of the franchise.
Critics Consensus: Slow, joyless, and loaded with unintentionally humorous moments, Breaking Dawn Part 1 may satisfy the Twilight faithful, but it's strictly for fans of the franchise.
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In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), plus those they love, must deal with the chain of consequences brought on by a marriage, honeymoon, and the tumultuous birth of a child...which brings an unforeseen and shocking development for Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). -- (C) Summit Entertainment
- Rating:
- PG-13 (for disturbing images, violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements)
- Genre:
- Romance , Mystery & Suspense , Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Directed By:
- Bill Condon
- Written By:
- Stephenie Meyer , Melissa Rosenberg
- In Theaters:
- Nov 18, 2011 Wide
- On DVD:
- Feb 11, 2012
- Box Office:
- $281.3M
- Runtime:
Cast
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Xavier Samuel
as Riley -
Omar Metwally
as Amun -
Lee Pace
as Garrett -
Kristen Stewart
as Bella Swan -
Robert Pattinson
as Edward Cullen -
Taylor Lautner
as Jacob Black
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All Critics (192) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (145) | DVD (3)
This penultimate "Twilight" film is the best in the series so far. It's languorous, romantic, moody, and, in the end, horrifying.
Color us stoked that a Twilight movie even strays into evil-fetus territory.
The last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap-operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger.
It all goes wrong just when it should go right.
Melodrama reigns in this supernatural soap opera, even though author Stephanie Meyer's tale takes a decided turn toward the weird and violent.
This is a well-made film, though sometimes unintentionally funny.
For those still in possession of their wits, this film is not only the worst of the Twilight flicks so far, but just about the most melodramatic and insipid movie I've ever watched.
The worst film in the "saga." Utter camp.
These movies have become one big joke, with hokey acting, slapdash visuals and Kindergarten dialogue. It felt like such a parody that it might as well have been directed by those jerks who made DISASTER MOVIE and EPIC MOVIE.
Breaking Dawn - Part 1 transfers pivotal events from the source material to the screen but fails to translate those events into a competent two-hour movie experience.
This film was made for the fans as they're going to be the only ones able to appreciate it, despite it not having any redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Dialogue howlers and largely soapy, melodramatic performances abound.
As a movie, this isn't terrible; none of them have been, really. Each film has gotten a director who has tried to do something simple and honest with Meyer's tormented material.
Entertainingly bad. In fact, it's the funniest movie we've seen this year even though it isn't a comedy (we think).
If I can say anything for the film, it's that it delivers exactly what the legions of Twi-hards want and expect--or what 'Team Edward' wants, anyway.
Terribly broken.
Bill Condon gives the series' fans what they have shown they want: uneven storytelling, maudlin dialog and decidedly one-note performances.
Bella makes her way toward "the kingdom where nobody dies" by being rather ingeniously resilient, completely predictable and frustrating, punished and punishing. She's 18, again and still.
Whatever momentum the third film had in this series, it's gone. Once again, it's an average soap opera.
Twilight series nears the end
For a movie about life-sucking vampires and flesh-ripping werewolves, there sure is an inordinate focus on the birds and the bees.
This slow-moving film has long periods of inaction and generates little suspense, making it the worst film in the "Twilight Saga" films so far.
Director Bill Condon, prostituting himself, flirts with teen porn ...
At least Jacob seems to understand the contradiction inherent in the insistence that coldblooded undeath is just another lifestyle choice.
How else to explain a wedding gown designed by Carolina Herrera in a town where the average gown is designed by Cooter and Otis Herrera.
Audience Reviews for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
No disrespect to director Bill Condon but they really do seem to pick their directors at random in this franchise. Bill Condon's direction is faultless for what must have been a frustrating job though. Basically, buff out as much as you can of half a book that really doesn't warrant 4 hours of film. Make boring look good. Good stories shouldn't be rushed but my goodness, this isn't a good story. Two hours of nothing. Two very long hours. Our characters seem to have undergone some memory loss or is that the writer/film makers? The character consistency is nonexistent, it's like the last two films never happened (which I wish were true). What is really going on here though? What is the message? 100+ year old Vampire marries young 18 year old. That's a bit nasty but not illegal I suppose so onto the big question; why is a Vampire (the Anti-Christ!) so worried about sex out of marriage? Then you have the issue of abortion, being with the 'right kind' and the social repercussions of both. Is this some Christian ploy to reach out to the moody kids of middle America, you know, the strange ones that wear black t-shirts? Well, whatever it is, it's possibly the worst (and most boring) Vampire/Werewolf film ever made. It's hardly the most romantic film either. I can only hope Bella changes and kills everyone in the final film. Oh, and the less said about that baby the better, what were they thinking?
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Twi4 - it seems each Twilight gets a bit worse. This one features Bella in dark makeup - each scene a little darker than the previous.
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The first-half of the last chapter of the Stephanie Meyer adaptation disappoints as the rest of the films did. As what Deathly Hallows Part 1 did in the past, Breaking Dawn Part 1 does as well. It's lengthy and a slow pace that only builds up its climatic points in the second part. Only difference is Deathly Hallows Part 1 is actually pretty good. Breaking Dawn Part 1 is brought down by its once-again uninspiring performances and dull chemistry. 3/5
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Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Quotes
- Bella Swan:
- Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
- Leah:
- Being any kind of happy is better than being miserable about someone you can't have.
- Bella Swan:
- You have to accept what is
- Edward Cullen:
- Because you've given me no choice! Bella, were suppose to be partners remember? But you've decided this on your own, you've decided to leave me.
- Bella Swan:
- Don't see it that way
- Edward Cullen:
- Well I have no other way to see it,'cause it's me who'll lose you. And I don't choose that, I don't choose that.
- Rosalie Hale:
- Say the word, Alice. Baby. It's just a little baby.
- Alice Cullen:
- The fetus isn't good for Bella!
- Jacob Black:
- I'm not the one carrying a demon.
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