The Missing Prince

Last night, I just wasted a hundred and twenty pesos watching this movie. You say it's an epic. I say it is murder.


Killing Rowling

The sixth book installment of Harry's growth to manhood is probably the most important part of the seven-book series. However pretty and fascinating Dumbledore's spell at the lake or the performance of Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix the movie did not epitomize or just summarize the entire 600+ paged book. Some chapters were ahead of the others. It is insufficiently supplied with important details and book order was slightly not followed leaving a trail of confusion to the avid reader's of Rowling watching Yates' interpretation.


Missing the finer points in Harry's Life

The movie completely diverted the story to Harry and Dumbledore from the Half-Blood Prince. Limelight was stolen and I hate it. Instead of sticking to the book that the story is dicovering the Half-Blood Prince, it is diverted more to Harry and Albus. The movie also misses the important details such as the 'Room of Requirement Scene of Harry and Ginny' wherein there should be a focus on the tiara slash diadem that is important in part 7 of the book installment. The death of Dumbledore was also not delivered well. The drop was not as compelling as in the book and the chaing of Snape was poorly directed. It was too short being Snape, the story-leader of the entire book.


Not Funny, not sad, nothing

Though the movie makes it humorous, the over-all impact was too much cheese on the macaroni. Malfoy was not too much panicky as what I expect him to be. He should be superflously wetting his pants by this movie. Snape was not Snape in this movie. He is somewhat a little less sublte than he usually is and THAT is weird. Jim Broadbent is not the best Slighorn yet. He was not what I imagined he would be. McLaggen is on the same boat. Not too cocky. I need that cocky bully in the book at that movie. Romilda Vane was just a pluff of a role in the movie, what happened. He should be a total flirt just like Lavender.

Synthesis

As usual, the antagonist is always the good actor. The child Tom was totally tops for me. Fenir and Helena were good in their roles. The story however was poorly directed and the director of photography should be sued for not making it as 'epic-er' than the fifth installment. The movie was mediocre. Not what I (and some people I know) expect. And the most important scene of the book, The White Tomb chapter was completely obliterated. How bad of them. In the end, I rate this movie 6 out of ten.

By the way, the quidditch scene is still the best scene.