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What a letdown!
By Shruti Khazanchi – Futuristic Media
This episode is based on the fifth book of J. K. Rowling and was expected to bring the same excitement to the screen as the previous four ones but was quite a disappointment. This series was supposed to be a series that children would enjoy but rating it PG 13 makes half the audience unsuitable uneligible. The kids were disappointed as they were waiting for this movie to hit the screens.
There is so much darkness in the movie that it becomes difficult to enjoy it. The movie is characterized by a distinct shade of darkness which also makes it difficult for children to enoy it. In fact Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is also troubled by strange dark visions as Voldemort's feelings seem to be filtering into his mind. This prompts
him to wonder if there's something of the dark side within himself. It somehow creates an impression that he has some kind of paranoia.
Ironically this is the longest book among all written by Rowling in the Harry Potter series, but the film is only 138 minutes which makes it the shortest among the other Harry Potter films.
Even though it is the shortest in the series, its kinda boring and the audience feels that the movie is long
and would have done better if the time was cut down or the content was increased.
When compared to the previous one this film hardly has any special effects that makes the audience sigh in awe. Even in the last sequence where there is a fight between Harry and Dumbledore against Voldermort we hardly see any exciting effects. Its more of a mess and blur on the
screen. The storytelling seems occasionally disjointed, but more important, for all the special-effects wizardry, that touch of film magic never surfaces. There's fireworks and action and much swooshing about, but this interim installment seems stuck in one nightmarish gear. After the triumph of the last two movies, directed by Alfonso
Cuarón and Mike Newell, this one is a big letdown.
Many new characters have been introduced too and if one has not seen the previous episodes then he would feel lost as there is no recap at all. The horridly cheerful, scarily funny Umbridge who is introduced as the headmistress of Hogwarts after Dumbledore's warrant to be arrested and the blonde, ethereal Luna Lovegood, are suspicious characters that do not have a role that justifies the character shaped about them in the minds of the audience. There is a whole lot of mystery created
about the ministry of magic but towards the end its all hushed up and no sense can be made out of it.
Radcliffe is clearly willing and able to take Harry to deeper, darker places, but the screenplay doesn't give him enough to play off of—his newly embattled relationships with Ron and Hermione who didn't make it to the screen. The opening or begining of the movie is marvelous, the conflicts are gripping, but the resolution is very quick and weak. The viewers expected more than just a few scenes of spark and magic. Quite a letdown for those who went to watch the movie with great expectation and excitement.
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