Marval Movie

And so The Twilight Saga comes to an end. This is the akibat act of all the weird relationships, the bad effect, the unconvincing action, the laughable situations. It's over.

Part two picks up where Part one left off, with Bella (Kristen Stewart) now a newly formed vampire. She awakes to her new state of being with her "true love" Edward (Robert Pattinson) and is introduced to their new baby named Renesmee. Things are complicated because the werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) has "imprinted" on the little baby, a werewolf thing where it doesn't necessarily mean romance but is like assigning guardianship.

The baby Renesmee, is one of the worst effects you will see in movies. How they were allowed to go the theaters with this poorly rendered smudge on the screen that makes the C.G.I. from the nineties look like Gollum simply defies any rational explanation. Why? Were they unable to find on real baby? It gets even worse because she ages rapidly, for some unexplained reason, so we have to see her forms between her as a baby and between... seven? Again she is apparently growing very fast but how fast is unclear.

Anyway it turns out that having a child in vampire form is forbidden and it means that they have produced a confrontation from The Volturi, the big, old, dramatic, ruling vampires, that all others must answer to. They are lead by Aro played by Michael Sheen.

Michael Sheen is a good actor which he is able to completely hide in his performance here. This is one of those cases where you watch a bad, terrible performance but it is made shocking because its by a good actor. This is like Eddie Redmayne in Jupiter Acceding. Even though it is not good, it is entertaining. Everything he has to do, he puts the scale up to fifteen with no regard for subtlety or nuance. In all likelihood it will make you laugh.

Once again, like all the other movies Billy Burke is the best actor. Plus in this that last movie in the Saga does the news finally get broken to him about the supernatural. He reacts as best a man in his position can, even though Bella has to keep the actual word vampire away from him you can see that he is struggling to accept what he needs to know and what he want to.

The other best actor in this movie is Dakota Fanning as Jane. She was introduced way back in New Moon and ever since she's appeared she has been appropriately creepy. With her pale, still face and red eyes that are the front for a truly sadistic personality. Her special vampire ability is that she can inflict great pain on whomever she wishes. Fanning does not have a lot to do in this movie or this Saga as a whole, but being the talented actor she is, she gives all she can give to this small role.

Everything finally comes to a head in a conclusion that is like something out of a cartoon and a twist you will never see coming because it defies all rational thinking. But I actually mean this in a good way. This is like the encapsulation of all the stupid and madness of this franchise channeled into one movie but all the good things about it.

I guess in the end that this is the best Twilight movie. It gives us all the stupid, has too much to do to make it boring and is never offensive like Part I and even gives Bella as a character something to do. Plus when its all done you can finally say "I made it out alive and I'm done."

Rating: 2 stars out of 4