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Eclipse is the beset Twilight movie so far and now I'm starting to give this series a little mercy. Yes, the writing is still bad, the CGI is awful, there's no chemistry between the leads, there's a lot of laughable dialogue, and terrible characters, but I enjoyed the movie and that's what movies are supposed to do. I'm actually going to watch the next movie with an open mind even if this movie wasn't that good.

The book Eclipse for me is much more interesting than the previous 2 books in the Twilight saga. But unfortunately this film adaptation doesn't present this story well. For example: in the book, the collaboration of the Werewolf pack and the Vampires is unlikely for a fair part of the book, and then it happens. But in this movie, this plot is given away much too early, ruining the storytelling.And then there are those little things that just shouldn't be in any movie. I mean the camera shake in the simplest of all shots. There is nothing wrong with the action-shots; they did the effort there. But a simple shot of a conversation? Camera is shaking like the Blair Witch Project. Why?

Eclipse isn't excellent but neither terrible. This adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's book falls somewhere in the middle, between the 2008's Twilight and the emotional oasis of 2009's New Moon. The Twilight series is often too much melodramatic but gets usually to arouse amorous emotions and thrills. Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and new series director David Slade (Hard Candy) try to use the whole teenage material into a coherent shape, with decent results. The inconsistency comes from tone results that end up being even lethargic at a point, so the forth installment will really have to be different otherwise fans will start getting tired of it.