The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
The Stephenie Meyer teen-vampire saga gets notably twisted and bloodier with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part I, easily the most-demented—and most-watchable—chapter in the series. That said, I still haven’t met a Twilight movie that I’ve liked. This is the first movie in the series to have something resembling a dramatic pulse. Some of the thanks can probably go to director Bill Condon, who has managed a few good films in his career, including Dreamgirls and Gods and Monsters. Condon can’t direct a compelling action scene to save his life, but he handles dramatic tension well. Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) get married and have one of cinema’s all-time-shittiest honeymoons as Bella gets pregnant with a vampire baby that tears up her insides. Hey, that plot twist alone makes this my favorite Twilight yet.
By Bob Grimm
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is not showing in any theaters in the area.
Credits
Director:
- Bill Condon
Cast:
- Kristen Stewart
- Robert Pattinson
- Taylor Lautner
- Billy Burke
- Peter Facinelli
- Elizabeth Reaser
- Kellan Lutz
- Nikki Reed
- Jackson Rathbone
- Ashley Greene
- Michael Sheen
- Anna Kendrick
- Sarah Clarke
- Christian Camargo
- Gil Birmingham
- Julia Jones
- BooBoo Stewart
- Mia Maestro
- Casey LaBow
- Maggie Grace
- MyAnna Buring
- Chaske Spencer
- Kiowa Gordon
- Alex Rice
Producers:
- Wyck Godfrey
- Karen Rosenfelt
- Stephenie Meyer
- Marty Bowen
- Greg Mooradian
- Mark Morgan
- Guy Oseary
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