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"Director: Bill Condon; Screenwriter: Melissa Rosenberg; Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz; Running time: 115 mins; Certificate: 12A  The Twilight Saga signs off on something of a whimper with Breaking Dawn - Part 2, despite the best intentions of those involved to bring some extra punch and spectacle to Stephenie Meyer&amp;#039;s source novel. After four movies of yearning for the immortal life, Bella (Kristen Stewart) awakens as a red-eyed, fully-fledged vampire in the opening scenes and must acclimatise to her new physical and emotional state. Like Edward (Robert Pattinson) and the Cullen family, she&amp;#039;s blessed with intense strength, lightning-fast speed and - finally! - is able to withstand sensational slow-motion vampire sex. There&amp;#039;s also the matter of her vampire daughter Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy), imprinted on by werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who becomes a target for the sinister Volturi. The clan&amp;#039;s leader Aro (Michael Sheen) believes her to be an &amp;quot;immortal child&amp;quot;, a young mind prone to tantrums and thus a potential threat to the vampire community. Thanks to Renesmee&amp;#039;s parents, though, she&amp;#039;s half-human, half-vampire and ageing to maturity at an accelerated rate. The Cullens begin to assemble vampire clans from across the globe - from Egypt and Romania to Ireland and the Amazon - to face the threat of Aro.  In trying to piece together its story and build some dramatic momentum towards the finale, BD 2 loses sight of the one thing that kept Twilight interesting through its first three instalments: the relationship between Bella and Edward. Now that the saga&amp;#039;s heroine has turned vamp, the tension between the leading pair is all but gone and Edward finds himself something of a peripheral figure. Twilight, though, has always been told through the eyes of Bella, so it&amp;#039;s at least refreshing to see Stewart play the character in a more fierce fashion than the previous mopey incarnation. The problems surrounding Jacob&amp;#039;s imprinting on Renesmee remain (something inherent in Meyer&amp;#039;s novel), and outside of this awkwardness the character is reduced to a comedy foil, stripping comically in front of Charlie (Billy Burke) and finding himself on the receiving end of Bella beatdowns. With the increasing budgets, couldn&amp;#039;t something have been done about the wonky wolf CGI? The much-discussed tweak to Breaking Dawn - Part 2&amp;#039;s climax, hatched by author Meyer and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, is one of the movie&amp;#039;s biggest misfires. It gives director Bill Condon the opportunity to fashion a large-scale set piece, but it results in a dramatic stumble that brings to mind the awful twist in Oliver Stone&amp;#039;s Savages. It&amp;#039;s a switch that&amp;#039;ll likely prove divisive among fans of the Twilight books, too, which have provided fairly strict blueprints for the subsequent feature film adaptations. Breaking Dawn - Part 2 is marginally better than its predecessor, and houses a deliciously high-camp performance from Michael Sheen, but it&amp;#039;s a movie that&amp;#039;s preaching to the converted and one that doesn&amp;#039;t have enough in its tank to recruit new fans to the series.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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