Kristen Stewart isn't a bad actress. No, really. She was great as Joan Jett , pretty fine in "Panic Room, and has made a lasting impression as Robert Pattinson's love interest off screen. But as Bella in the Twilight franchise of teen vampire movies she is just… unwatchable. She shows emotion by twitching and whoever the men, Edward, Jake, her Dad, she is not believably affectionate to any of the, When she gives her daughter a bracelet and a tap on the head here, her words of eternal (and we mean ETERNAL) maternal love is unbelievable. For one thing, she will be setting the diabolically named Renesmee (really: that's what author cum screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg chose to name the child? Why?) up with Jake.
For no real reason except to see how few words I can sum up four movies, here's the "Twilight" series in a nutshell:
1.Teenage Bella Swan moves in with her divorced daddy, the most clueless Sheriff on the planet.
2. Teenage werewolf Jake (Taylor Lautner) falls for her, Bella falls for vampire Edward.
3. Bella and Edward get married, have a kid, and Bella becomes a vampire.
And here we are at movie Five where Renesmee is growing in dog years and is half mortal, half vampire. Aro (an amusing Martin Sheen who looks more liek Tony Blair with every passing day) and the rest of the GOP want to kill Renesmee because they think she's immortal. I know but don't start getting all logical on me or we will never end.
OK, I'm gonna give away the ending here and usually people say "don't read", I say "absolutely reader" so you are not made a sucker of the way I was. There is a huge, terrific Last Battle and tons of folks we were sick of sometime in 2008 getting their heads chopped off. Especially the tediously anemic Carlisle Cullen who needs a stiff double of human blood in the worst way.
But it is all a possible future and Aro weasels out of the fight and we are stuck with a terrible terrible ending including Jacob and Renesmee together as a couple (in a flash forward).
There is something about the Twilight series that sucks the lifeblood out of actors. I just saw Anna Kendrick in "Pitch Perfect". She was also in "Up In The Air". Terrific in both, in Twilight? Terrible.
Music: The soundtrack I've written about elsewhere, but the score, this is Carter Burwell's second Twilight score is pretty good, especially a lovely overture and a brittle electronic battle scene.
Movie: C-
Music: B