Half good version of the popular novel. No wonder it’s popular, at least with girls – move to a new town and all the boys will like you and girls will be your friend, even if you are anti-social; the hottest boy in school will fall in love with you – and yes he’s a vampire but that means he’s braver, stronger, smarter and sexier than all of the rest, and besides he only lives off animals, and he’s been around for eighty years looking for you and he’s prepared to risk it all. And he has a loving vampire family who even though one of them is a bit mean the others are prepared to risk their lives to defend you. Oh and her mother and father love her too even if they are divorced.
Ok I’m making fun but it’s a good story, set in a beautiful locations, with pretty stars who can’t really act, being prone to Party of Five ticks (lots of pauses and hesitation). They aren’t that convincing at grand passion but they do look cute together and there is pace. This isn’t particularly well directed – some of the scenes are laughable, the inexperienced actors could have been better protected, the stabs at naturalism simply don’t work in what clearly has to be an expressionistic piece – but it looks handsome and there’s clearly enough here for a sequel.
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