A game of two halves?

Rating: 5/10 (6 December 2010)

Having just seen this movie yesterday (05/12/2010), I can honestly say that it was exactly what I expected it to be, except for its darkness. Compare this to the first movie in the series and there are more similarities to Star Wars than Harry Potter! I think JKR is trying to get us to leave the theatre in a cloud of doom and depression, as it is so dark. Having watched all the movies to date, I felt like most people that I had better watch them to the end. I wish I hadn't bothered. Don't get me wrong though, these are good movies all of them. But they are so unlike each other, I don't remember my five years in high school being so different every year in succession. They should be seen as seven, (sorry, eight!) different movies and not a series. The worst part of all of this though is that yesterday I paid the full price at the theatre to watch half a movie. Oh I know Warner Bros is suffering as there are only a finite number of HP movies, but I am not a rich man and nowhere near as rich as anyone who has anything to do with this movie! Making it in two parts, no let me rephrase that, making it in ONE part and splitting that into two and charging two fees for one movie is a big con, the book wasn't anywhere near as big as 'The Order of the Phoenix' so there is no need to split it up. Even my partner felt that a lot of this movie should have been left on the cutting room floor as it just dragged on and on. Now of course this will become a new thing, I have heard that there are other big movies to be made in one part yet split into two. Come on Hollywood! I want to support you by visiting the cinema and buying genuine Blu-ray Discs, but I am not like yourselves, made of money!