skullbochs

I went to see the latest Harry Potter movie last night with my parents. It was Mom’s birthday, and she’s a die-hard HP fan. We had a good time, especially Mom. She and Dad loved the movie. Me? I thought it was majorly disappointing.

First, for a movie named after him, it tells you almost nothing about the Half-Blood Prince. Even knowing who he is now, I’m still not sure why I should care. So he was a great wizard. So he turned out to be _______. Nifty. Yawn.

The plot was completely rushed, almost to the point of not existing. I haven’t read the book, so I’m not complaining about what they left out from the book. I’m complaining that they didn’t put enough of anything into it to make it look like a story rather than a choppy sequence of scenes. This was especially bad towards the end, which didn’t feel climatic at all. Despite a major character dying at the hands of another major character and Harry learning how to finally defeat Voldemort and deciding not to go back to school the next year, I left the movie feeling like nothing really happened. They should have either expanded the movie to 3 hours or cut some of the annoying myspace-drama between Ron-Lavender-Hermione and used the time to fill in the gaps in the plot.

All in all, it felt like (at best) an overly-long prologue to Deathly Hollows, not like a full episode in the series.