The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: November 16, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonNov 13, 2012
Every frame of silent, lip-biting, pent-up tension in the series has been holding its breath for this -- a 600-minute soap opera suddenly exploding into a Grindhouse slasher. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNov 13, 2012
The final installment of the immortal Bella/Edward romance will give its breathlessly awaiting international audience just what it wants. Read full review
80
VarietyJustin ChangNov 13, 2012
Part 2 has the bonus of a livelier Stewart performance than fans have been accustomed to. No longer a mopey, lower-lip-biting emo girl, this Bella is twitchy, feral, formidable and fully energized, a goddess even among her exalted bloodsucker brethren. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanNov 15, 2012
Breaking Dawn - Part 2 starts off slow but gathers momentum, and that's because, with Bella and Edward united against the Volturi, the picture has a real threat. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianM. E. RussellNov 15, 2012
No one joyfully embraces this absurdity better than Michael Sheen. The actor finds a ridiculous-yet-perfect way to deliver every single second of his performance as head of the global vampire council -- He's all over the film's finale. It's fantastic. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsNov 15, 2012
It's not a good film, but viewed from a cockeyed angle, it's a great guilty pleasure, and director Bill Condon is in on the joke. Read full review
63
New York PostSara StewartNov 15, 2012
Finally, someone took the source material at its terribly written word and stopped treating the whole affair so seriously. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaNov 15, 2012
Easily the trippiest and goofiest of the five addled adolescent vampire romances based on the Stephenie Meyer books. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundNov 15, 2012
Characters are better employed; emotions are, for once, palpable; and the selfishness of Bella, author Stephenie Meyer's avatar, is finally somewhat squelched. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNov 14, 2012
I suspect its audience, which takes these films very seriously indeed, will drink deeply of its blood. The sensational closing sequence cannot be accused of leaving a single loophole, not even some those we didn't know were there. Read full review
60
SlateDana StevensNov 15, 2012
By the time the great vampire showdown finally got started, I was good and done with Breaking Dawn, Part 2. But the big action scene is so campily over the top - with one twist so unforeseeable - that it sent me out on a burst of grudging goodwill. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 15, 2012
Despite the slow start Mr. Condon closes the series in fine, smooth style. He gives fans all the lovely flowers, conditioned hair and lightly erotic, dreamy kisses they deserve. Read full review
60
MovielineAlison WillmoreNov 15, 2012
Bella's an empowered badass in this last installment, wielding newborn strength while showing unusual self-control and learning to use her new abilities - and that's why things feel off. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyNov 15, 2012
The dialogue remains spotty and sappy, the effects still haven't caught up to modern-day standards, but "Twilight's" popularity is such that even when it falls short, it doesn't seem to matter. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNov 14, 2012
And now, just as Bella Swan (Stewart) embraces her own eternal power, Breaking Dawn, Part 2 expands with a full intensity of force, stronger and more epic than the films that led to this impactful finale. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraNov 14, 2012
Fans will be left on a high; other viewers will be confused but generally entertained by a saga whose romance is matched only by its weirdness. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 16, 2012
I'm not a religious man but, Hallelujah! I may not be done with Meyer but at least I'll never again have to cope with the angst, self-absorption, and vampire mythology mutilation that characterized these five movies. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonNov 15, 2012
It's about as exciting as watching David Blaine play Stratego and makes you miss the power of the first four films all the more: the uncontainable yearning of the Bella-Edward-Jacob triangle. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigNov 15, 2012
There may never have been a movie whose quality mattered less than this final chapter of The Twilight Saga. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 15, 2012
It's Dead! It's Dead! By which I mean, It's Finished! It's Finished! Five movies have been squeezed out of four Stephenie Meyer Twilight books. All of them redefining cinematic tedium for a new century. And now, It's Over! It's Over! No more Twilight movies EVER! I'm so joyful that I might be overrating The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 by saying it's not half bad. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 15, 2012
The franchise... concludes with a genuinely stirring ending. ... But [Stewart's] acting hasn't improved, and the dialogue remains laughable. Bad actress, bad lines. Bad combination. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubGenevieve KoskiNov 15, 2012
Comes as close as the film series has gotten to reconciling the epic romance it's billed as and the self-aware camp-fest it often hints at wanting to be, but it's still a messy, unwieldy slab of film product that's targeted directly at fans of the book series, with little regard for anyone else. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisNov 15, 2012
This fifth and mercifully final installment features so much idle anticipation that it's unclear whether we're watching a movie or an Apple product launch. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesNov 18, 2012
Kiddos: I'm sighing, too, but only from relief it's all behind us now. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichNov 15, 2012
As billion-dollar Hollywood franchises go, this is one of the drawn-out dumbest. The stake through the heart comes not a moment too soon. Read full review
40
Total FilmEmma DibdinNov 15, 2012
Between its farcical script, soulless relationships and waxwork performances, this is a final chapter that will please only the most devout fans. At least the bleeding wolves have stopped talking. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNov 15, 2012
Part 2 really is a continuation of "Part 1," both from a story standpoint and from an artistic standpoint. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 14, 2012
Despite all those fierce confrontations and tribal divisions, exhaustively rehearsed and mythologised, nobody's really a bad guy and nothing's really at stake. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNov 15, 2012
Boasts one moment, perhaps three or four seconds in length, so delightfully intense and uncharacteristically juicy that the rest of the film - most of the rest of the whole series, in fact - looks pretty pale by comparison. Not vampire pale. Paler. Read full review
38
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 15, 2012
For those with no vested interest in this protracted and supernatural soap opera, but who do care about cinema, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 will be, unsurprisingly, a silly and somewhat cheesily made waste of time. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 15, 2012
If anything, this series has gotten dumber and more inert as it has progressed, with this last one finally reaching over into an extended wallow in camp. Read full review
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