Although I would not rate this a GREAT movie I think that they did a very good job with the subject. The book has all this inner tension, a difficult matter to get across, and they did a very good job with that. The other thing that made it a difficult subject was that the Cullens are so superlatively good looking that finding people to play these parts well was challenging. They did a good job with that. Bella is a well played in that she is pretty in a simple and down to earth way. The bad guy was creepy! We were a little disappointed that they didn't use Forks, WA to film it but we realize that the real Forks high school is not that photogenic!