Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) by Dylan D — 19 Mar 2015

Breaking Dawn is certainly not a perfect movie, but the story it tells partially makes up for its many structural shortcomings. This is Twilight finally at its thematic peak, where years of preparation have finally yielded a brief peace, albeit a peace that promises only more pain and difficulty in the trials to come, trials that take shape in this movie and that will take shape in the next.

Sadly, Breaking Dawn as a whole never quite gels; its first half is sluggish and its second is home to a few poorly-realized critical scenes. The film at least creates an anticipation for the next, a film which will hopefully be tighter and more consistently engaging than this.