There was a bit of pressure, for mine, on Eclipse , the third in the Twilight series.
I'd always thought it would translate best to the screen and it certainly lived up to that expectation and in many ways exceeded my hopes.
There are times when the makers have taken a bit of licence, like when they show you how Riley (Xavier Samuel) is created at the beginning.
If I have a criticism it is that they tended to rush things in the first 20 minutes. I thought they could have taken a bit more time to get to the realisation that Victoria was back and hunting Bella again.
It's also a shade disappointing that Alice didn't get to kidnap Bella, get her yellow Porsche and have Rosalie tell Bella her story in the right context. Her story was told well, I thought, but the context was wrong.
They don't take anything away from the film as a whole but as someone who has read the book it stood out quite a bit.
In Eclipse, Bella (Kristen Stewart) is caught in the tug of war between Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) until the two sides have to come to an uneasy truce in order to protect her from Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard, horribly miscast but what can you do) who is bent on avenging her mate's death.
She creates an army of newborn vampires to do her bidding so that Alice can't see when she's going to strike.
All this leads to a number of very well done scenes from the book, such as when the vampires and werewolves are chasing Victoria between their two territories, when Jasper is showing the wolves how to battle newborns and the fight scenes when they eventually attack.
Eclipse also features a number very excellently placed comic lines, including one crack by Edward aimed at Jacob (''don't you own a shirt''), and one back the other way (''I'm hotter than you'').
In all I thought this was easily the best of the three so far and now the 12 month or so wait until part one of Breaking Dawn begins.
They're going to have to be careful in making Breaking Dawn. There's some pretty controversial (for want of a better word) stuff in that book and they are right in splitting it in half. Anyway, an 8.5 out of 10 for Eclipse - but it's still preferred if you're a fan.
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