Diary of a Schizophrenic

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Caught this over the weekend. This one doesn't really move the story along much, with the two biggest plot developments reduced to pretty much an afterthought. It's nice seeing the young creepy Tom Riddle (Voldemort) but that's about it.

The intro is pretty good, though, with the Death Eaters destroying the Wand Shop and a bridge in London (forgot which one). After that, it turns into a teenage romance fantasy, probably due to pressure from the similar teenage snogfest Twilight.

Jim Broadbent has a supporting role but he's mostly wasted as the bumbling professor with a dark secret.

This works best as a teaser to the coming end but that's it really. Also has a homage to North by Northwest and this is the second movie to quote that cornfield sequence, after the first X-Files movie.

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