The acting seemed better, but it's hard to tell because, just like real teenagers, the actors don't enunciate or speak up. If you haven't read the dialogue in the book, you'll have trouble understanding what the heck they are saying!! The vampire and wolf effects are very good, and the added action could draw more male viewers. Would like to have seen more depth and development of each supporting character - more than a 10 second flashback of how each became undead. I'd have also liked to see the original actor in the Victoria role. Dallas-Howard is a great actor, but the look wasn't right and the break in continuity was distracting. This is a movie series that really should have tried to go beyond the book author's bad writing and made it better, though of course it's too late three movies in, and the author's dedicated followers would protest.