The wave of reviews has started, and here’s the first one, from the Chicago Tribune. They gave Twilight 2 1/2 stars…
Director Catherine Hardwicke, who made “Thirteen” and “Lords of Dogtown,” didn’t have the money (or, likely, the impulse) for blockbuster machinery. She keeps the scale of things intimate, focusing on all the fervent, sexually charged but doggedly chaste murmurings of her charismatically sullen stars: Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, the new kid with the “Daria” vibe and the complicated emotional defense system, and Robert Pattinson (cue the teen screaming) as Edward Cullen, tortured, sensitive vampire with astonishing fwoopy hair. I mean it: astonishing. The first time Bella accidentally brushes against Edward, she recoils. “Your hand is so cold,” she utters. She may as well add: “And your hair is so fwoopy!”
If there’s a sequel—and there likely will be—here’s Job One: Show us, in a striking way, what these undead can do when they’re not letting their hair do the fwooping.
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