--- title: Eclipse Review: Jacob Is Hotter Than Edward description: The word on the street is that director David Slade's Eclipse is the best of the movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga to date.... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6910944/eclipse-review-jacob-is-hotter-than-edward/ author: Mary Pols article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2010-06-30T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-22T16:16:53.359Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Eclipse Review: Jacob Is Hotter Than Edward og:description: The word on the street is that director David Slade's Eclipse is the best of the movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga to date.... og:url: https://time.com/archive/6910944/eclipse-review-jacob-is-hotter-than-edward/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e4c12df1fc5915/698a4b71cabb1d46f8e53060/360_twilight_boxoffice_0629.jpg?branch=production&width=360&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 360 og:image:height: 203 og:image:alt: 360_twilight_boxoffice_0629.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Eclipse Review: Jacob Is Hotter Than Edward twitter:description: The word on the street is that director David Slade's Eclipse is the best of the movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga to date.... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e4c12df1fc5915/698a4b71cabb1d46f8e53060/360_twilight_boxoffice_0629.jpg?branch=production&width=360&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) # Eclipse Review: Jacob Is Hotter Than Edward > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Mary Pols](https://time.com/author/mary-pols/) Jun 30, 2010 4:00 AM UTC  Taylor Lautner, left, and Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Taylor Lautner, left, and Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Kimberley French by [Mary Pols](https://time.com/author/mary-pols/) Jun 30, 2010 4:00 AM UTC The word on the street is that director David Slade’s _Eclipse_ is the best of the movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s _Twilight Saga_ to date. Certainly it’s the lightest and brightest — everyone is still chaste, but the movie is actually sexy in parts. It appears to have embraced its own sense of camp and is consistently funny in an intentional way. For the first time, I found myself curious to see what comes next. But it may be that I’m suffering from a self-preservation instinct, a cinematic Stockholm syndrome. _Eclipse_ marks my third trip to Forks, Wash. Your first time, it’s easy to be snotty about a place. On your second, maybe you grudgingly admit that the eye candy isn’t bad. But the third time your employer sends you to Forks, you had better get sucked in, or you’ll lose your mind. You have to find the joy in the endless dopey declarations of love, the physical comedy in red-eyed armies of vampires fording deep Northwestern rivers and the titillation in a tent scene that plays like a parody of _Brokeback Mountain_ yet maintains its erotic charge. [(See TIME’s Summer Entertainment Preview 2010.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1990393,00.html) We first find Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire beau Edward (Robert Pattinson) embracing in a field of flowers, as they are wont to do. They exchange pretty, dignified kisses, the kind that won’t gross out any 12-year-olds. They save their tongues instead for their usual poetry. “Marry me,” he says. “Change me,” she demands. And so on. [(See a Q&A with _Eclipse_ producer Wyck Godfrey.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1999903,00.html) In the context of the world’s most vaunted human-vampire love story (unless, like me, you haven’t gotten over Buffy and Angel), “change me” means make me a vampire. But with socially awkward Bella, the subtext is, Relieve me of the human teenage condition of not fitting in. Not to mention, Are you ever going to put out and change me from virgin to woman? As Bella, Stewart finally seems more confident. She’s stopped fussing with her hair and she seems to relish having some humorous lines. “Do I even want to know what that is?” Bella asks her shape-shifting pal Jacob (Taylor Lautner) when he mentions that his wolf companions “imprint” on other people. [(See the top 10 iconic vampires.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2000547%5F1996347,00.html) In a prologue, a young man from Forks named Riley (Xavier Samuel) is bloodied on a Seattle dock by an unseen assailant, a scene that sets up the central conflict, a war between the Forks vamps and a new coven in Seattle led by red-haired Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard, replacing Rachelle Lefevre). Revenge is afoot. But the real business at hand is decisionmaking. Bella has said she’ll stay human until after high school graduation, but that day is fast approaching. The Volturi want her dead or turned. _Eclipse_ is really about making the choice between life and death. [(See portraits of the _Twilight_ stars.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1939314,00.html) It’s the bridge to the final book, _Breaking Dawn_, in which Bella is, um, finally fulfilled (an event so enormous, it will require two box office expenditures, i.e., movies). What is fascinating is how much of _Eclipse_‘s language parrots the language of the never-ending abortion debate. “I envy you. You had a choice,” Rosalie (Nikki Reed), Edward’s vampire “sister” tells Bella. Rosalie was turned a century or so ago by a kindly vampire who found her dying in the street after a gang rape led by her fiancé (now _that_ is a vampire after-school special). “I want you to understand all your options,” the beautiful Jacob says, before presenting Bella with the first option: kissing him. She could also rest her head on his warm pectoral, her hand on the third can to the right in his six-pack. Doesn’t that sound good? That fussy maiden Edward only lets her undo a couple of his shirt buttons. Thus the cinematic versions begin to diverge from its origin. At my preview screening, when Jacob tells Bella, “I’m exactly right for you, Bella; it would be as easy as breathing with me,” the entire audience sighed, a collective expulsion of emotion that said, “Listen to the simmering beefcake!” When her classmate Jessica (the clever Anna Kendrick) gives a graduation speech proclaiming that this is the time to make mistakes, figure out who they want to be, to live, we all want that message to get through to stubborn Bella. But we know it won’t. Anyone who was alive at the time of _Breaking Dawn_‘s release knows Team Jacob is out of luck. [(See Techland’s top 10 worst movie characters — including Edward Cullen.)](https://techland.com/2010/06/30/edward-cullen-total-loser-and-the-other-worst-movie-characters-of-all-time/) This is not how it was supposed to go down. Edward is supposed to be the Rhett Butler figure, not Jacob. You could chalk up this growing dissatisfaction with the overall narrative to a casting problem or a screenwriting issue (Lautner does get the funniest lines), except who really thinks Lautner is a more compelling presence than Pattinson? What’s happening is that the movies are demonstrating the central problem with the books: becoming a vampire is a lousy choice. Mutiny may be in order. [See pictures of movie costumes.](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1699703%5F1511794,00.html) [See the 100 best movies of all time.](https://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910944/eclipse-review-jacob-is-hotter-than-edward/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910944/eclipse-review-jacob-is-hotter-than-edward/"},"headline":"Eclipse Review: Jacob Is Hotter Than Edward","datePublished":"2010-06-30T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:16:53.359Z","description":"The word on the street is that director David Slade's Eclipse is the best of the movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga to date....","url":"https://time.com/archive/6910944/eclipse-review-jacob-is-hotter-than-edward/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e4c12df1fc5915/698a4b71cabb1d46f8e53060/360_twilight_boxoffice_0629.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mary Pols","url":"https://time.com/author/mary-pols/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e4c12df1fc5915/698a4b71cabb1d46f8e53060/360_twilight_boxoffice_0629.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_twilight_boxoffice_0629.jpg","caption":"Taylor Lautner, left, and Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse","creditText":"Kimberley French","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910944/eclipse-review-jacob-is-hotter-than-edward/","name":"Eclipse Review: Jacob Is Hotter Than Edward"}}]}] ```