Twilight

Twilight (2008)

Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Kellan Lutz

When Bella (Stewart) moves from her comfortable surroundings of Phoenix to a mysterious small town in Washington, she has no idea that she would soon become involved in a relationship with a vampire. Based on the popular novel by Stephenie Meyer, "Twilight" offers some interesting takes on the vampire genre, including one of the film's most memorable scenes of an undead game of baseball. Add this with strong performances from the cast, most notably Pattinson as the complicated Edward Cullen, the movie has the potential to be better than it actually is. The problem lays in the fact that the film takes much too long to reveal Edward's immortal identity that the action in the last part of the film seems rushed and not all that thrilling. A little more time spent relaying the true danger of the vampire underworld and a little less time spent trying to normalize the vampire family unit may have saved this film from its mediocre fate.