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Just seen it. Enjoyed it a lot, there are some great performances from Jim Broadbent and Tom Felton (it'll be a shame if his career ends with HP), Maggie Smith looked incredibly frail this film. The story had me fairly hooked and there was some great humour.
However...
It wasn't in itself a movie, it didn't have a beginning and an end, it was a movie with lots of exposition and 'an unhappy event' to quote Mark Kermode. A lot was explained but there was never an overall running plot to the film. It's perhaps the only HP film that's only enjoyable as part of the series and is very hard to enjoy on it's own.
It also seemed to jump around a lot, the scene where Dumbledore and Harry go to fetch the
seemed incredibly random, how did he know it was there? I know they had to cut stuff from the book but there were lots of bits where the cast were doing things out of the blue with no "now I must visit Dumbledore to xyz!".
The Half Blood Prince of the title was incredibly underplayed. It's a book with really good notes in it. There are a few fast flashes of pages where you're supposed to read something important but it doesn't direct you to any point so you miss the important information. I didn't know Harry was using a spell he learnt from the book until
said so. Likewise, he was
. The book is actually incredibly unimportant in the film and you never feel it matters.
Very enjoyable and I was gripped but it was a real mess and one of the worst examples of a joining film I've seen.
This is a point of view of someone who has never read the books.
Just seen it. Enjoyed it a lot, there are some great performances from Jim Broadbent and Tom Felton (it'll be a shame if his career ends with HP), Maggie Smith looked incredibly frail this film. The story had me fairly hooked and there was some great humour.
However...
It wasn't in itself a movie, it didn't have a beginning and an end, it was a movie with lots of exposition and 'an unhappy event' to quote Mark Kermode. A lot was explained but there was never an overall running plot to the film. It's perhaps the only HP film that's only enjoyable as part of the series and is very hard to enjoy on it's own.
It also seemed to jump around a lot, the scene where Dumbledore and Harry go to fetch the
seemed incredibly random, how did he know it was there? I know they had to cut stuff from the book but there were lots of bits where the cast were doing things out of the blue with no "now I must visit Dumbledore to xyz!".
The Half Blood Prince of the title was incredibly underplayed. It's a book with really good notes in it. There are a few fast flashes of pages where you're supposed to read something important but it doesn't direct you to any point so you miss the important information. I didn't know Harry was using a spell he learnt from the book until
said so. Likewise, he was
. The book is actually incredibly unimportant in the film and you never feel it matters.
Very enjoyable and I was gripped but it was a real mess and one of the worst examples of a joining film I've seen.
This is a point of view of someone who has never read the books.
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