Let me start by saying that I’m not a big Harry Potter fan. I’ve seen all of the movies and thought they were okay. But I haven’t read any of the books. And I’m a huge Lord of the Rings fan – both of the books and movies.
I must confess that I didn’t like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at all. I’m not saying it was a bad movie. It just lacked anything to get over the hump of being average.
The most notable failing is the acting/directing. There are very few scenes where the actors have any expression other than a dower expression of impending doom or feeling dejected over their inability to form a relationship with the ones they really love. And there’s hardly ever a smile, or quirky expression of playfulness. In only a few scenes during the movie did the audience laugh out loud.
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Since impending doom is the flavor of the day, throughout the movie they should have worked with it by getting more closeups of the actors in anguish. But the camera seems to always be far enough away that we don’t feel the actors. We only see them. I never felt any connection to any character at all.
The first hour-and-a-half or so of the movie is also filled with many short choppy scenes, with hardly any connection from one to another. It’s as if they decided to film a few pages of the book here and there without alluding to what was skipped over. But I’ve found all of the movies, except the first one in this series, to have a similar flow. If it didn’t bother you then then it won’t bother you now.
Lastly, the music was completely underwhelming. Where’s Hans Zimmer when you need him? 🙂
Ultimately, this movie seemed like it was put together from scenes from a great movie that fell on the cutting room floor.
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