Sunday, August 9, 2009

Harry Potter and the half blood prince

This is even more boring than I thought. I enjoyed all movies before but this one is just bad. I never read the books but I heard they are good and the movies follow more or less the story. This one, everybody agreed that the love stories of the characters are non-relevant in 2 hours and a half. Because It lasts soooo long that even where I went to see it (in the Cinestar at Potsdamer Platz, Cinestar. It’s the only place they play original version without subtitle) they did a break ! All at the advantage of the theatre of course, because we refill with ice cream, pop corn and water. This is the least involving of the series so far, with an unclear storyline and action set pieces that fail to convey the excitement of the book. And that is the point. The friend I was with asked after the watching where were all the action that is in the book. When we had the pause, she said to us : if they put in the next last hour everything that you read in the book, there will be a lot of things to see. We were for example attracted by the title “… half blood prince”, and me who do not read the books, I expected something to happen. Finally almost in the end, we know who that is so finally, will the movie starts now ? The bad character played by Bonham Carter will do something really bad (actually she should stop now playing endlessly the same since years, It’s boring) ? Well, bad luck, nothing happened. This is a Potter film that will be quickly forgotten, even by Harry’s most ardent fans. Truly. Have another ice cream for the road.

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