Director David Slade seems to have succeeded in doing justice to Stephanie Meyer’s novel. In a personal opinion, Taylor Lautner’s character Jacob is one of the main climaxes of Eclipse simply because he manages to create a ripple between the calm romance between Edward and Bella, the on screen/off screen couple. So, we can’t help but love the character of Jacob (not only for his looks) just as when we first loved Bella and Edward.

Edward (Robert Pattinson) fans will be thrilled to see their hero back in action in this third sequel as most fans were disappointed with his lack of presence in New Moon. Bella’s character has grown with time and we see that Kristen Stewart as an actress has also improved in her performance in the movie tremendously.

It was great to see Dakota Fanning back on the big screen playing the role of the powerful Jane of the Volturi. Since we’ve seen her grow up from a child actress to a teenage one, we have to admire her strength as an actor as she gives a lot of character to each of her performances and this role in particular was a difficult one to play which I feel she nailed!

The character of Victoria that is now played by Bryce Dallas Howard (replacing Rachelle Lefevre who previously played her) returns with a stronger vengeance for Bella that she creates her own army of newborns to destroy Bella. Edward and Jacob are therefore forced to unite to save the girl they love.

All in all I feel that it was the strong performances of the actors which seemed to have carried the movie through to be a success.

Rumour has it that the final book of the twilight series will be filmed in two installments dragging the movie sequels a little bit. But since most critics seem to agree that Eclipse is probably the best from the series maybe David Slade should take on the challenge for the final installments of Breaking Dawn as well.

But for now: All Twihard fans! This one’s for you! Eclipse will be in Sri Lanka from July 16, at the Liberty Cinema, and since this is the first time a sequel of Twilight is shown in Colombo, be sure not to miss out on it!

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