Taglines: The epic finale that will live forever.
The final Twilight Saga begins with Bella now a vampire learning to use her abilities. And happy to see her daughter, Renesmee is flourishing. But when someone sees Renesmee do something that makes them think that she was turned. This person goes to the Volturi, because it is a violation to turn a child. And the penalty is death for both who turned the child into a vampire and the child, cause they deem a turned child too dangerous.
Alice gets a vision of the Volturi coming after them. So the Cullens try to convince them that Renesmee is not a threat. So they ask friends and family to come stand with them. But when someone who has it in for the Volturi shows up and tells them they should be ready for a fight. And they get ready.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (commonly referred to as Breaking Dawn: Part 2) is a 2012 American romantic drama fantasy film directed by Bill Condon and based on the novel Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. Constituting the second of a two-part adaptation of the novel, the film is the fifth and final installment in The Twilight Saga film series, following 2011’s Breaking Dawn: Part 1.
Part 2 was released on November 16, 2012. The film, despite mixed critical reception, was a box office success, grossing nearly $830 million worldwide against production budget of $136 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2012 and the highest-grossing film of The Twilight Saga series.
Film Review for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
The Twilight Saga signs off with a tentative whimper which turns into a conditional bang, which turns out to be a different, provisional kind of whimper. It is certainly a bravura display of contact lens acting. Red contact lenses. Black contact lenses. Beigey-orange contact lenses. Almost every single cast member does that robotic, gleaming, double-disc stare at the camera, as if afraid that some vampire slayer will somehow top them all and bury everyone face up just level with the tarmac along a stretch of white lines on the M11. To be fair, the story does acknowledge this tic in one scene by having Bella disguise her vampiric nature – with contact lenses. Two sets, ouch.
The story is now at the stage where Bella, played by Kristen Stewart, is now a proper vampire and a proper mum, and Edward (Robert Pattinson) is a dad. But there’s a shock in store. She has been delivered of an uncanny-valley CGI moppet called Renesmee, weirder and scarier-looking than any vampire. This bizarre digital contrivance is so that the infant’s features can be seen to morph progressively into those of the actual flesh-and-blood performer, 11-year-old Mackenzie Foy, who will come to play Renesmee as a child.
There are tensions at first, but basically Bella and the baby settle down pretty well with the extended Cullen clan, and with lupine quasi-uncle-guardian Jacob (Taylor Lautner) who has “imprinted” his soul on the child. Once again, the vampire family do a lot of their signature standing around, as if posing for a Boden catalogue of the Undead.
They are still living in that very elegant modernist house but, very bizarrely, when the Cullens fix Edward and Bella up in a place of their own, their architectural taste goes right down the toilet with a horrific little Tudorbethan cottage featuring a closet containing four separate vulgar designer bags for Bella. Inevitably, the existence of little Renesmee causes a flareup with the sinister Volturi vampires led by Aro (Michael Sheen) and the stage is set for a titanic battle.
r
Despite all those fierce confrontations and tribal divisions, exhaustively rehearsed and mythologised, nobody’s really a bad guy and nothing’s really at stake. Well, there’s a satisfaction in seeing the story finally rounded off here, although there are rumours of more in store and the Twilight myth has in any case already been resolved, in giving birth to the non-abstinence porn of EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey, originally a fan-fiction coupling of Bella and Edward. Breaking Dawn has moments of wit, but did the Twilight saga have to be so bland? Catherine Hardwicke’s first film was a brilliant standalone teen romance, but its saga robes came to hang very, very heavily.
… we’re asking readers to make a new year contribution in support of The Guardian’s independent journalism. More people are reading and supporting our independent, investigative reporting than ever before. And unlike many news organisations, we have chosen an approach that allows us to keep our journalism accessible to all, regardless of where they live or what they can afford. But this is only possible thanks to voluntary support from our readers – something we have to maintain and build on for every year to come.
Readers’ support powers The Guardian, giving our reporting impact and safeguarding our essential editorial independence. This means the responsibility of protecting independent journalism is shared, enabling us all to feel empowered to bring about real change in the world. Your support gives Guardian journalists the time, space and freedom to report with tenacity and rigor, to shed light where others won’t. It emboldens us to challenge authority and question the status quo. And by keeping all of our journalism free and open to all, we can foster inclusivity, diversity, make space for debate, inspire conversation – so more people, across the world, have access to accurate information with integrity at its heart. Every contribution we receive from readers like you, big or small, enables us to keep working as we do.
The Guardian is editorially independent, meaning we set our own agenda. Our journalism is free from commercial bias and not influenced by billionaire owners, politicians or shareholders. No one edits our editor. No one steers our opinion. This is important as it enables us to give a voice to those less heard, challenge the powerful and hold them to account. It’s what makes us different to so many others in the media, at a time when factual, honest reporting is critical.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)
Directed by: Bill Condon
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene, Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning
Screenplay by: Melissa Rosenberg
Production Design by: Richard Sherman
Cinematography by: Guillermo Navarro
Film Editing by: Virginia Katz, Ian Slater
Costume Design by: Michael Wilkinson
Set Decoration by: David Schlesinger
Art Direction by: Lorin Flemming, Nate Fredenburg, Jeremy Stanbridge
Music by: Carter Burwell
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violence including disturbing images, some sensuality and partial nudity.
Distributed by: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Hits: 99
