The new found married bliss of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world.
Melodrama reigns in this supernatural soap opera, even though author Stephanie Meyer's tale takes a decided turn toward the weird and violent.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
18 Nov 2011
rotten:
It all goes wrong just when it should go right.
– Sara Stewart,
New York Post,
18 Nov 2011
fresh:
The last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap-operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
20 Nov 2011
fresh:
Color us stoked that a Twilight movie even strays into evil-fetus territory.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
20 Nov 2011
fresh:
This penultimate "Twilight" film is the best in the series so far. It's languorous, romantic, moody, and, in the end, horrifying.