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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
PG13 (SINGAPORE)
2011
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Positive Reviews
37
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
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1.0
The audacity of the filmmakers to make this terrible of a movie has me almost speechless.
We Got This Covered
1.0
Bella Swan (Stewart) has had a rough go of it.Her high school sweetheart, Edward Cullen (Pattinson), turned out to be a nonpracticing bloodsucker, and ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
Even if you know the outcome, its gripping stuff and Stewart sure is good at looking life threateningly ill.
Time Out
3.0
Specially since the foetus is growing too fast and furious.Chapter three: parenthood.This is the time to step into adulthood and face adult questions.
ETimes (TOI)
3.1
The movie doesnt show us!.Yes, the most eagerly awaited deflowering in recent movie history takes place entirely off screen.
Rogerebert
3.0
Each film has gotten a director who has tried to do something simple and honest with Meyers tormented material.
E Film Critic
1.0
Sadly, its unlikely that Breaking Dawn Part 2 will be any better than this (both films were shot back to back by the same director), but an incongruou ..
Telegraph
2.5
Breaking Dawn is one of few modern blockbusters that treats distinctly female interests and concerns wedding dresses, honeymoons, childbirth as cinema ..
Cinema Blend
2.0
The film looks cheap with bland CGI werewolves and vampire effects and for a series that is raking in plenty of money with each release, its surprisin ..
Screen Rant
2.5
was supposed to be climactic. Instead, its the most jumbled and tonally confused movie yet.
The Globe And Mail
3.8
If by several lengths it is the best of the Twilight movies it is because it has the best story to tell.
Philly
3.5
And now we wait a year to see where this consummated love takes us all.
Spirituality And Practice
1.5
The movie is seriously bonkers, but not in a campy way that might offer a tingle of amusement.
Blu Ray
1.9
Its a shame, too, since this series actually appeared to be finding its footing with its previous entrya movie that not only contained actual conflict ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.8
The lessons arent insightful but are high ground for the franchise.
Usa Today
1.5
This slow moving film has long periods of inaction and generates little suspense, making it the worst film in the Twilight Saga films so far.
Lariat
3.2
The wedding and honeymoon sequences at the beginning are charming in a teen soap opera sort of way, and the bat poop crazy finale is shocking the firs ..
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Tweet The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Jim Lane By This article was published on 11.24.11 Advertisement Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire ..
News Review
1.3
But Condon is helpless before the ravening banality of Melissa Rosenbergs screenplay, which substitutes timidity for risk at every turn.
Rolling Stone
3.5
And the deranged story is packed with hilarious asides that make the movie both engaging and enjoyably nutty.
Shadows On The Wall
4.5
Peter Farrellys first foray into drama, Green Book, is simplistic in its message for examining racism, but maybe that simplicity serves as the sugar c ..
Pop Matters
2.0
In 1989, Spy magazine commissioned some of New Yorks most acclaimed pastry chefs to try to recreate a Twinkie.And while all of them concocted tasty de ..
The Wrap
2.0
On top of that, the film frustratingly introduces some promising looking new characters (played by Maggie Grace and MyAnna Buring), only to drop them ..
View London
2.5
What remains is the total conviction that the ludicrous scenes are dead serious and fiercely meaningful. The result is not quite a laugh a minute, but ..
News Day
2.2
Part 1 is going for a Rosemarys Baby vibe but without much wit or imagination.
Cs Monitor
1.5
You either love it with every fiber of your being or dismiss it as pathetic pap for simpering virgins.
Film Journal
1.5
But overall the film is goofy, slight, without a truly deep thought in its pretty little head.
Az Central
3.0
The second is much more satisfying and horrifying, a long way from teen romance.
Smh
2.5
The difference here is that every so often director Bill Condon manages to make the film a heady mix of visual splendor and over the top camp.He even ..
Mountain X
2.0
Director Bill Condon (who directed and wrote the Oscar winning screenplay for Gods and Monsters) may not have a light hand here, but he fully commits ..
Npr
2.5
The absurdity quotient of the movie begins high and rapidly escalates to bedlam.
Star Tribune
2.5
It turns out to be not a consummation devoutly to be wished, but a horror story realising every nightmare about wedding nights and pregnancy.
Guardian
1.0
The vampire drama of Twilight is all about the romantic agony of eternity, and this franchise feels like its going on for ever.
Guardian
2.5
Yes, theres lots of lovely scenery and some fitting special effects.
Reel Talk Reviews
2.5
In this regard, Breaking Dawn Part 1 is a backward step because it feels more turgid when it should be gaining intense momentum.
Q Network
1.0
The only laughs in this are from the po faced dialogue, potty plotting and wooden performances.
Daily Mail
2.2
Yes, I know, Twilight fans love The Twilight Saga. But they (you) deserve something better to love.
Ew
1.0
(The shot of Bella waking in the wreckage the morning after is one of several moments when the movie pokes fun at its own het up silliness.)
Slate
2.0
The actings better than its ever been, but with the best will in the world, this cant get past the fact that the storys demented.
Empire
3.0
But what is vividly portrayed is the message of taking responsibility for ones choices, like mating with the undead and transitioning into a vampire.
Susang Ranger
3.0
This first installment in the two part finale is all relationship melodrama with very little action, so fans of the special effects driven fight scene ..
Common Sense Media
3.0
The fact that all this is normal gives the film a daffy kind of charm; itll age as well as a meticulously tended mullet.But its devoid of even a fract ..
Movies
3.0
The finished product allows the audience to take it as as seriously as it takes itself and/or laugh at its inherently ridiculous retro romance.
Movies
1.3
The first includes the book seriess fans (or Twi Hards, if I must), whove already sold their souls and would gladly follow Bella Swan and her devil/an ..
Slant Magazine
1.9
Whenever certain actors take the lead and set the pace of the dialogue, time itself begins to crawl backward and the breaking dawn begins to feel like ..
Chicago Tribune
2.0
Worse, its about 50 minutes of plot stretched out to 105 minutes, which makes it the most ponderous of the Twilight movies to date.
Bullz-Eye
1.5
Well have to wait a year before we find out and, believe me, I can wait even longer.
Reeling Reviews
2.5
Well have to wait a year before we find out and, believe me, I can wait even longer.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
Its so totally cool how the movie spends like three hours, it seems, on the wedding.
Flickfilosopher
1.5
After four novels and three movies, the Twilight film franchise moves to its conclusion in predictably grand fashion with a two part adaptation of the ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.0
But narratively, the result of cutting Breaking Dawn in half is that the first installment is two hours of slow, tedious setup with very little payoff ..
Las Vegas Weekly
2.0
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Total Film
3.1
Fans wont care but others might.As a stand alone, its a shaky affair more likely to please lovers of the books than anyone else.
ReelViews
1.5
After the energy and alertness evident in his previous work as helmer of Gods and Monsters, Kinsey and Dreamgirls, it looks as though director Bill Co ..
Hollywood Reporter
1.5
In keeping with the franchises former installments the CGI werewolves still look like crap, and the romance is still oh so tortured even as the actors ..
Coles Mithey
2.0
So the wedding is superb in its execution, the filmmakers allowing plenty of time to savor it.
Los Angeles Times
2.2
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Hit Fix
2.5
Basically, it all comes down to whether each one feels accessible enough to hold my attention.
Aisle Seat
2.5
Well, like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Twilight producers have carved the franchise finale in two.
Herald Sun
3.8
This is despite the fact that its ultimately all too clear that theres simply not enough content here to justify more than one picture, with scripter ..
Reel Film
2.5
Instead, its all about moving the pieces around, as if like the honeymooning Edward and Bella it were playing another game of chess.This knight is sac ..
Nj
2.5
The flow eventually stopped, allowing me to put my full attention on a movie with so much built in fan appeal that it hardly needs reviewing.
Movie Habit
0.5
Theres plenty of stupidity... from talking wolves and geisha like vampire make up to the most uncomfortable newborn baby moment this side of A Serbian ..
7M Pictures
2.5
The earth moves for Bella and Edward moves heaven and earth to save her...fans will be satisfied by the romantic nature of things, although the scale ..
Urban Cine File
4.0
The Twilight films manage to cleverly blend melodrama with supernatural thrills, and while the film is not without its silly moments and cringeworthy ..
Mirror
2.5
This part of the story really feels as though it were added so that the movie would have some action in it.The cast delivers the same performance as a ..
Three Movie Buffs
2.5
But if theres a moral that teenage girls can take away from these films based on Stephenie Meyers wildly popular novels, it is this: Lust doesnt pay.B ..
New York Post
3.8
After years of standing up for sparkly vampires, fans have trouble defending Stephenie Meyers Breaking Dawn.
Kansas City
1.9
Lautner, who lasts approximately 8 seconds before tearing off his shirt, suggests more than ever that the casting director mistakenly told him he woul ..
Red Eye Chicago
2.5
Its nice to see these characters smile, laugh and have fun together since its all too rare.
Dustin Put Man
1.3
Suggested solely for Twilight diehards, this underwhelming, unfunny melodrama amounts to little more than an uneventful setup for next years grand fin ..
News Blaze
0.5
You can practically feel the strain of stretching what is already rather thin material across more than four hours of screen time.But when has a studi ..
Patriot Ledger
2.5
This weekend, millions of people around the globe will be conned into handing over their hard earned cash to see a film with no plot, no action and no ..
The Film Pie
2.0
But about halfway through the movie, my ironic laughter stuck in my throat and I just started to feel nauseated.
Io9 Gizmodo
3.1
And it leaves one question unanswered: What is a vampire bachelor party really like
Js Online
2.0
We hope you enjoy your private jetliner while we snicker silently at your gluttony, laziness and inability to give us an actually good film.Some plot ..
Hollywood Chicago
2.0
But, despite an indulgently euphoric opening that will more than satisfy fans with wedding fever (The Dress.Bella is definitely channelling Kate Middl ..
Sky
2.5
But Im guessing therell be a steep fall off in the ensuing weeks as word spreads that this vampire saga is toothless and tame.
Sbs
1.5
Much like the recent Harry Potter conclusion, the split film finale is promptly revealed as a crass money making measure rather than an artistic neces ..
What Culture
3.1
How can it do it.Tighten the pace to be as taut as Lautners 12 pack, cut out the unnecessary bits.
Mercury News
3.0
This helps Trier to negotiate and subvert cinematic cliches about creative types and give a clear eyed and moving portrait of someone lost in the mode ..
Scots Man
2.5
Ultimately, this movie has more forced sincerity than a Republican presidential debate.
Scene Stealers
5.0
Initially we suspected a simple teen girls fantasy about falling in love with a vampire, but that could safely be dismissed as too literal a reading.
The Ooh Tray
3.5
Entertainingly bad. In fact, its the funniest movie weve seen this year even though it isnt a comedy (we think).
Scifi Movie Page
1.3
Two things are certain: it is one of the worst movies of the year, and it is going to make an awful lot of money.
Scifi Movie Page
2.0
Breaking Dawn Part 1 is just as tepid as its predecessors.The picture sidesteps all opportunities to depict the novels nuttiness (including intense vi ..
Streaming Quickflix
2.0
After a photogenic beginning and lackluster middle, Breaking Dawn redeems itself at the fag end with a gruesome but emphatic imagery of Bella in labou ..
Rediff
0.5
Nothing negative about the film can be said to fans who spent long hours outside theatres often in the cold waiting for the first showing at midnight.
Review Express
2.5
I wish I could report it was worth the wait, but the paparazzi pictures of Pattinson and Stewart nuzzling are sexier than this.
Entertainment Time
3.8
The fourth book is so expansive that the filmmakers made the right call in splitting it into two parts. Stewart, Pattinson & Lautner have come to be g ..
Entertainment Spectrum
3.5
With not a lot to do towards the end of the film but look worried, Pattinson and Lautner could have easily dialed their performances in.That they didn ..
Media Mikes
1.5
In a movie littered with wooden and down right poor performances, Kristen Stewart gives the best of the worst.
Daily Film Fix
3.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
2.5
From my perspective, so far, it seems like this could have easily been one movie.Then again, I dont know what lies ahead.
The Scorecard Review
3.0
You can always close your eyes and pretend its one of those Marvel movie teases we love so much.
Movies Ign
3.1
I have no idea where the story goes from here (although theres a scene that comes halfway through the end credits that gives you a good idea.).But the ..
Miami
2.0
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Richard Roeper
3.1
I cant think of a safer set of films structured around a werewolf and a vampires lustful battle for the heart of a human conquest.
Hollywood News
3.2
But I think the Spider Man mythology transcends not only generations but directors as well.
Eclipse Magazine
2.0
My biggest complaint about the filmmaking is that its bad in the most boring way.Its not even fun bad like the trashy Vampires Kiss.
Kpbs
2.0
Tensions between characters that reflect back to the previous installments are given almost no illumination here.Neither is it exciting in any way.
The Diva Review
2.3
What cant be explained away is the films terrible narrative structure and lack of creativity.
Flixist
1.5
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 might be the most beautiful and well made bad film in history.
Bad Ass Digest
2.0
The dialogue writing is tighter; there is a deliberate and noticeable attempt to be subtle (particularly a hilarious montage featuring wedding speeche ..
Mid Day
3.0
Here, he once again demonstrates a flair for style over substance.
Liver Pool Echo
2.0
The storyline for The Descendants sounds rather glum, but Payne manages to squeeze quite a bit of humor out of the scenario.
Kc Active
2.0
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Sfx
5.0
This is why Breaking Dawn is ultimately more interesting than its predecessors: its a movie about vampires and werewolves that is actually kind of sca ..
Bust
1.5
Dont blink or youll miss it.Too bad I cant say that about the rest of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1.
Movie Juice
1.5
Honestly, you can sneak into the movie an hour and a half in and not miss anything.
Blogs Houston Press
3.0
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New York Metro Mix
2.0
The northwestern vistas still give the saga a brooding beauty it doesnt deserve, and the CGI wolves are still hilarious, particularly when they conver ..
7 Dvt
3.0
I do wonder if seeing Bella turn into a near anorexic with a face thats bordering on Gollum might have subliminal implications for some vulnerable tee ..
Birmingham Mail
2.0
But what, exactly, might be growing inside her is cause for concern all around The acting is wooden, the special effects clunky, the dull stabs at hum ..
American Profile
2.2
Though the Twilight film series has concluded, newcomers to the series hoping to see it all will need to watch the following films:
Movies About
2.5
Nevertheless, that dose of unintentional humor did keep me amused.
Wd Times
3.1
If there was ever a franchise that plays like a TV soap opera with a climatic ending that leaves the audience wanting more, its this one. If you have ..
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