This is the finale of the Twilight romantic fantasy movie series that premiered in the year 2008, gave vampire movies a new twist and made household names out of the 3 young leads Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.
This last installment finally saw Bella transformed into a powerful vampire with amazing abilities. It also spawned the child of Bella and Edward, Renesmee who is a half human and half immortal. The movie has a strong cast comprising MacKenzie Foy, Ashley Greene, Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning, Kellan Lutz and Maggie Grace, amongst many others.
I am not a good storyteller and do not know how to embellish a tale, but I was really happy with how the story panned out and the ending. Frankly, there are many things about this finale that I love.
For a start, I love how they alternated the colours red and white at the beginning of the movie to introduce the production crew and ended the movie by showing the entire cast from the first movie until the last. I think it is unprecedented and although I couldn't remember all the characters but it was a good way to wrap up the saga after 5 years.
Then, I love the beginning part of the movie where they showed fantastic views of the beautiful forest conifers and animals when Bella displayed her newfound abilities to hunt. Once again, it was as if I was looking at an enchanted forest with mystical creatures. I was already sold after watching this initial but brief introduction before the story unfolded its dark side.
The showdown between the vampires, werewolves and Volturi on the snow-covered open field was the climax and I was shocked and saddened by the sudden and quick deaths of the Carlisle Cullen and Jasper, during the brutal battle, who appeared and played important roles in the Cullen family from the first movie until now. Their deaths enraged the Cullen family and their vampire friends and gave them strength to fight and hold their own against the powerful and corrupted royalty Aro, Jane, Alec and others of the Volturi coven, whose demise was both sweet and uplifting for those who rooted for the Cullens.
The battle ended brilliantly, and gave a well-deserved ending to this epic tale of vampires and werewolves. Of all the movies in this series as shown below, this is my personal favourite.
- Twilight (2008)
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part 1 (2011)
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part 2 (2012)
This is the view of the Geylang River near the Jalan Batu and Dakota Close side. It is such a pleasant experience living near to waterways and channels as long as it doesn't smell. I once lived at Towner Road beside the Whampoa River for almost 2 years but did not really appreciate the value of the proximity.
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Today's weather - sunny
I wasn't keen to watch this movie actually. Set in 2020, it stars the Australian actor Hugh Jackman aka Wolverine of the X-Men movies and Evageline Lilly, best remembered for her role in the TV series 'Lost'.
In the future, human boxers were replaced by robot boxers. Charlie, Hugh's character, a former boxing champion whose life was in shambles tried to reclaim his former glory through participating his robot boxer in illegal matches etc. After being united for the first time with his preteen son Max left behind by his recently deceased former girlfriend, he slowly learnt to pick up his life through his son and childhood girl friend Bailey, Evangelline's character.
There were a lot of people in the cinema and most were thrilled by the high energy of the boxing matches. I, for one, couldn't stand the noise level whenever the boxing matches were on, which is in fact so frequent. This was made worse by a pair of talking kids, seated behind me. They were so annoying and kept talking throughout the movie. After a few loud "sssshhs' and glaring sessions, the older kid stopped for a while but eventually they went back to it. I swear I almost felt like boxing them unconscious. Why are there still such inconsiderate people around, who yakked constantly throughout movies without any regard for others? This reminded me of a movie I watched previously where a pair of aunties talking incessantly throughout the show despite my numerous attempts to get them to shut up. This is what I hate most about going to movies with a big crowd. Inevitably, someone somewhere would be talking loudly and disrupting my enjoyment of the entire movie.
The best part of the movie was the fantastic acting by the adorable and precocious child actor Dakota Goyo. Come to think of it, why are kids so precocious these days and they behave so mature and seemed to know everything? Anyway, to me the most touching scene has to be the part in the final boxing matches between the robots where Charlie was so deeply engrossed in the simulation fighting, that unbeknownst to him, the two persons Bailey and Max who love him immensely turned to look at each other with tears brimming in their eyes as the sound of the cheering audience drowned away to reveal their joy and pride for him in finally achieving his dreams.
All in all, this movie is not for me because I never know how to really enjoy watching boxing, not even if it is played by credible, sexy actors and actresses.
