The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Review by Matt Finley

It’s been a long bumpy road, paved in sparkles and abs, but here we are: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2, the final installment in a series that’s gained more cultural caché from the shrill fervency of its fanbase (and detractors), and the romantic foibles of its lusty cast, than from its actual narrative, characters or cinematic artifice.

Watching the TWILIGHT films has been a learning experience. Granted, the only thing I’ve learned is how to successfully sit through a TWILIGHT film, but with this latest installment, I feel as though I have at last fine-tuned my expectations to the perfect low, greeting every wet, floppy morass of melodrama, half-constructed concept and wholly bootlegged plot contrivance with a knowing shrug, while shamelessly, willfully and brainlessly succumbing to what few fizzling surprises the film had to offer.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

Review by Matt Finley

It’s the film adaptation of first half of the fourth installment of a fiction sensation that inexplicably hit the cultural zeitgeist like a tornado hits a game of Jenga: TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1. Be you Team Jacob, Team Edward or Team Van Helsing, nothing I say will change your alliance. Twilight has always been low melodrama at its swooniest, with just enough supernatural claptrap to keep the glares, tears and smooches rolling on toward the inevitable happily ever after. With director Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS, DREAMGIRLS) at the helm, this episode does manage to feel more cinematic than any prior entry but, alas, even our seasoned Cap’n cannot successfully navigate the story’s Bermuda love triangle, a horizonless sea of tiresome dialogue and repetitive themes.

Twilight Saga Marathon At Capitol Theatre & Chagrin Cinemas

[Press release from Cleveland Cinemas.]

Whether you are on “Team Jacob” or “Team Edward,” Cleveland Cinemas wants to invite you to see the first three TWILIGHT films on Thursday, November 17th before the debut of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 at midnight. 

The first film in the series, TWILIGHT, will play at 4:45 PM followed by THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON at 7:05 PM. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE will play at 9:30 PM before the midnight premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.

The following locations will be participating in the TWILIGHT SAGA MARATHON: Capitol Theatre (1390 W. 65th St, Cleveland) and Chagrin Cinemas (8200 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls).