Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
5 |
The audience watched this film with rapt attention. They obviously had a deep understanding of the story, which is just as well, because I doubt anyone not intimately familiar with the earlier installments could make head or tails of the opening scenes. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
5 |
...Eclipse has garnered notices praising it as the best and most action-packed of the three. Which I don't understand. For me it's the most ponderous and most sloppily directed, and by far the most deadening when the dramatic necessity known as "talking" must be confronted, in between battles. |
E!
Luke Y. Thompson |
5 |
...made for people who thought the first movie was quality cinema, after all, and for them, our grade may as well be an A+, since it's slightly better than Twilight. If you're part of that crowd, feel free to stop reading right now. |
filmcritic.com
Norm Schrager |
5 |
...those looking to Eclipse for a bigger tale of vampires and wolves -- one which should be readily available -- you're going to leave hungry. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
7 |
...dispenses with much of the caramel gooeyness of the first two episodes in favor of decent action, some heartfelt tender moments and even a splash of wit. |
Slant Magazine
Simon Abrams |
2 |
...still just as nonsensical, tawdry, unsexy, hypocritical, and ill-conceived on every level as the last two films. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
5 |
...just one more walk on the mild sides for tweens who dream of being penetrated by cold flesh that will keep them young and cute forever. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
8 |
The story, at heart, is earnest and humorless teen romantic glop, but its feelings aren't fake, and the movie is compulsively watchable; it has a passionflower intensity. |
New York Times
A . O. Scott |
7 |
If there is a bit more humor on display here — some of it evidence that an element of self-conscious self-mockery is sneaking into the franchise — there is also more violence, and, true to the film’s title, a deeper intimation of darkness. What there isn’t, as usual, is much in the way of good acting, with the decisive and impressive exception of Ms. Stewart, who can carry a close-up about as well as anyone in movies today. |
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey |
8 |
...is back with all of the lethal and loving bite it was meant to have: The kiss of the vampire is cooler, the werewolf is hotter, the battles are bigger and the choices are, as everyone with a pulse knows by now, life-changing. |
Village Voice
Dan Kois |
5 |
...the least laughable installment yet in the series, and director David Slade efficiently delivers the fan service that Twihards require. |
Onion AV Club
Genevieve Koski |
5 |
...still a mostly for-fans-only proposition, but it has slightly more to offer outsiders than the previous two films in the Twilight saga. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
5 |
...essentially an adolescent female fantasia about coming to terms with one’s sexuality. There I’ve said it. And I’m sure no one else has ever said it. |
Variety
Peter Debruge |
7 |
The pleasant surprise this time around is that the result finally feels more like the blockbuster this top-earning franchise deserves. |
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