After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
I certainly won’t miss the series but millions will.
My step was light as I emerged from this Dawn, but only because it marked the end of a cringingly portentous and preternaturally boring series.
Despite all those fierce confrontations and tribal divisions, exhaustively rehearsed and mythologised, nobody's really a bad guy and nothing's really at stake.
They’ve grown out of this; so should we all.
A flashback late on to Catherine Hardwicke’s original Twilight reminds us when this now CGI-heavy franchise was much simpler. But Condon’s approach somehow seems fitting for a story that is all about the loss of innocence.
Bella may be no Katniss Everdeen, the quick-witted, resilient young heroine of The Hunger Games, but unlike so many young female characters in fantasy films, she remains resolutely and unapologetically at the heart of her own story. If that is to be Twilight’s cinematic legacy then I’ll accept it gladly, miserable vampires, topless werewolves and all.
Fans will be left on a high; other viewers will be confused but generally entertained by a saga whose romance is matched only by its weirdness.
(Faint) praise be: this is the best Twilight yet. Wait, this is the last one, right? Please say yes.
After five films and 607 minutes, the way things play out feels like particularly scant reward.
In two hours, all we get is a trailer's worth of bloodless decapitation, preceded by hundreds of pointless scenes.
On past form, devoted Twilight fans will love it.
Bloodier, funnier and even more ridiculous, but the final chapter of this saga is better paced than the Potterthon.
Interview with the vampires
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