Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Movie Insight

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After the loooong wait, well finally I got to see the movie on its opening day. I got to see it in an IMAX theatre even! (although the cinema had technical difficulties at that time) So, what do I think about it after all the hype? I was pretty disappointed…yet again. My favorite among all the Harry Potter movies still remains to be The Goblet of Fire.

The first 12 minutes of the movie was in 3d. In my opinion, there were better scenes in the movie that they should have chosen to be made into 3d like the cave sequence. That would have been awesome and scary! Towards the middle, the humor provided was good, it made me laugh anyway, although my date didn't. Haha. Oh well.

I was disappointed because they left out key points from the book and failed to integrate or give enough emphasis into the movie. One is the half-blood prince himself. We only got one statement from Snape in the end. There wasn't even enough impact with it. Another one is the supposed battle at the tower at the time of Dumbledore's death. I wonder why they didn't choose to immobilize Harry like he was in the book. The movie made him appear more useless than ever because he was just standing there and he didn't do anything brazen. There wasn't even a grand funeral for Dumbledore. Sigh. Key points. Tsk tsk.

The ending left me hanging because I couldn't believe there wasn't anything anymore. It was a whole 3 hours worth of movie and still there should've been more. I had free tickets to watch it one more time but I couldn't bear to get disappointed again. I really hope the last movie which will be split into two parts will do justice to the magnificence of the whole series. After all, it will be the LAST one, they should make it spectacular.