Directed by: David Yates
Written by: J.K. Rowling (novel) & Steve Kloves (screenplay)
Harry's sixth year is off to a weird start. Snape is finally the Defence Against Dark Arts teacher, and they have a new potions master. Harry also gets private lessons from Dumbledore, to discover crucial details about lord Voldemort's past.
Yates's style still annoys me. He's trying to force fantasy literature into action. With Yates directing it seems that the grim visual side and "action" is more important than the actual story. And again, the idea of a dark fantasy story is making the movie so dark it's hard to see. That kind of aesthetic only suits David Fincher, and Yates is nowhere near his brilliance.
Also the romance side doesn't work at all in this movie. Sure, teenage romance is of course a bit awkward, but this is so outrageously clumsy it's painful to look at the scenes. The writer still hasn't managed to capture Ginny Weasley, nor has he decided what she should be like. Ginny is a completely different character compared to what she was like as a small child and even when Half-Blood Prince is compared with Order of Phoenix. Did the writers just want to have someone cool to be Harry's love interest? She is nowhere near as cool as she is in the book. Why is it so hard for men to write believable female characters?
But if there is one character this movie manages to capture it's Draco Malfoy. Still, there's no sign of actual character development, because in the fifth movie he was still that annoying school bully and now he's, well... this. To be honest, that development happens very quickly in the books also. It's of course understandable, but slightly annoying.
I love how they still pretend like now we get some real insight into Voldemort's past when we see like two memories of him. It's ridiculous.
Half-Blood Prince is slightly better than the fifth movie. Maybe it took Yates some time to get used to the series. Still, he just doesn't seem to quite grasp the idea of Harry Potter, he just wants to make dark fantasy action for young adults.
☆☆☆☆☆
5 / 10
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