Twilight (2008)

Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writer: Screenplay: Melissa Rosenberg Novel: Stephenie Meyer
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Cam Gigandet, Ashley Greene, Christian Serratos, Anna Kendrick, Nikki Reed, Taylor Lautner, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathborne,
Genre: Teen, Fantasy, Drama, Romance

Twilight is one of those movies who probably doesn't exactly look to me as their target audience. Pale vampires, high school girl with crush and so on is widely seen as proposals for teen girls to spend their allowance.

It's been a while since I watched it, but as I'm about to review the sequel, I might as well sum up my thoughts about the first movie in the Twilight saga. Might also mention I haven't read the books they're based on.

I enjoyed this one. The story came along in focused tempo, the characters was build up nicely and the entire fantasy element of it wasn't out of control. As long as you buy the premises, the story manage to follow up without taking large detours or jump from a storyline to another.

Kristen Stewart is one of my favorite actresses, but here she doesn't really get too much to work with. Same goes for most of the supporting cast as well, but in this kind of a story the acting abilities doesn't really need to be as sharp as in others. An Enjoyable fairytale.