Movie Review: Twilight (2008)

Yeah.. It is movie day (Wednesday) that you can go for RM5 at TGV. Friends came over from Terengganu, spending their annual holiday in Penang and their first stop was visiting me (I do appreciate that, though) and asked if we can go out for leisure time and spend an evening somewhere. He'd want to watch Twilight as he (and so do I) prefers vampire kind of thing. We both followed Moonlight (vampire series) and I have watched Van Helsing (like twice).

The movie started with pretty gloomy introduction and characters shown to be nice - perhaps it was because they live in small town that people knew each other quite well, I guess.

No, this is not the first time that I watched vampires who don't drink from human (be him dead or alive) - Supernatural has that, vampires who feed on animal's blood and Moonlight who feeds from not-so-fresh blood of dead body taken from morgue.

As Moonlight tries to show diverting part of "new" and "modern" vampires who lives to be stock-broker, detectives and other professional roles while at they same time they are NOT affected by direct-sunlight. Twilight shows glittering skin when a vampire exposed to sunlight while Moonlight just show that vampires don't mind but cannot get over exposed.

Ok, enough comparison I think - this is not about Moonlight.

The FIRST one hour is pretty slow (it runs for two hours) and kinda flat. It goes for a little peak towards the end, but doesn't really off the chart. Perhaps if Twilight can show different angle of Cullens life and show what the rest do for living and how do they think.

The plot of killing another vampire in Phoenix does not go to the extend of full intention of "hunting" that shows the vampire to be very smart in thinking and designing situation. It perhaps be better if that involve more and more antagonist parts of showing affection towards love and restraining of killing same kind.

While the ending may not be what we have expected, I do think that this movie shall have sequel and heard (read somewhere) that they are going to have TV series on this. I don't know - to follow or not. Prefer metropolitan- compared to country-vampire.

(Last night scenes, I am sure have been cut many and at many places, thus needed me to wait for full unrated DVD to go out to watch again.)

Ok, if I were allowed to rate, I'd give 1 for the storyline (vampires) and 1 for stunning camera movement (which shows the aerial view of the Forks country-side), making the total of 2 out 5.