Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Well, what can I say about the most long-awaited movie of the year? I don't particularly know, I was enjoying myself thoroughly up until the end, when I reached a point where I was really unsatisfied. But, okay, here goes.
As everyone knows, Harry is in his sixth year at Hogwarts, with all sorts of trouble all over the place: the hunting of memories (whoops sorry, memories implies that several were shown) of Voldemort, as well as romance flipping all over the place. Meanwhile, Draco (who has actually grown to be REALLY good looking) is stuck spending his free periods staring at things in the Room of Requirement, and sending apples and birdies to his lover at Borges and Burke's XD (to the point where I inwardly started imagining a letter coming back saying "yes, the passage works. Stop sending me tokens of your love"). Eventually, Harry coerces Slughorn to give him the memory of the Horcrux method and Dumbledore and Harry set off to find it and destroy it. (see http://umamandy.deviantart.com/art/damn-128571813 for my take on it) Harry finds out it's fake after Snape kills Dumbledore in place of Draco.
Yadda yadda.
Okay, don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the movie. A lot. For one, it's about 10 times funnier than its predecessors (or however it's spelt), and the innuendos were a delightful treat for the ageing-with-the-actors audience. The actors (bar one, but I'll come to that later) are amazing and the teenagers are growing up to be really really goodlooking. I'm talking about everyone here, males and females. ^^
However, the problems that have been in all the movies have resurfaced. The obvious one is the cutting out of stuff and putting stuff in. I mean, what was the point of Bellatrix and Fenrir destroying The Burrow? It's only Harry, Ron and Hermione who go to live at Grimmauld Place.
And the other problem surfaced has been there since the third or fourth movie, but maybe it's just me (and it's not something that can be changed now) but THE ACTOR OF DUMBLEDORE IS LIKE GRUFF OLD BASTARD WHO CAN'T BE EMOTIONAL!!!! Like, in the fourth movie he pushes Harry against a wall and is like "DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET, HARRY?" when in the book, Harry's not meant to see how menacing Dumbledore is until the end of the book. Grr... in this movie, his 'scream' of 'kill me' when drinking the potion is more like a challenge then a cry of despair. For goodness sake, he's watching his brother be tortured! And I'm sure it specifies in the book that he pleads. Oi... and then when Snape is pointing the wand at Dumbledore, it's a half-hearted 'Snape. Please.' D= At least try to make it seem like you're not reading lines in a script? I read that as a complete break in his character (old man, wandless, surrounded by death eaters) and he would have been pleading for his life, but here it's a 'go ahead, kill me, please. Not like I really care anyway.' -_-
Okay, I could go on for ages about how I dislike this actor. But I shan't. Because, hey, Dumbledore's dead! Who cares anymore?! (that's seriously the emotion I felt when I was watching it, unlike in the book where I was crying)
But, take away these issues, and I did enjoy the movie. I'm giving it a cake rating, with 7/10. ^^