Before I begin I will have to warn you that I am a die hard Harry Potter fan. My expectations for the movie adaptations from the book are extremely hardcore. I believe that rules should be followed, not altered nor removed completely. This is a very personal movie review not professional.

*If you have not read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow’s beware of Spoilers*

After hearing the news of the September release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince being delayed all the way to July I was very upset, but then again I kept telling myself more time to make it better. Right? So July comes around and I already dealt with the epic news of Transformers hogging the Imax screen and here I was arriving to the cinema at 10 o’clock. That was early enough for Paige but of course it was not early enough for the rest of the city and we all were stuck sitting in the second to front row. I kept telling myself, well after I wined and complained for 20 minutes, that the movie was going to be epic and insanely great. Boy was I wrong.

After the first scene being altered to where Harry was sitting in a small restaurant with a hot waitress from the original opening in the book where the Prime Minister receives a visit from the Minister of Magic I started to lose hope in the movie. I would like to say that the range of emotion and acting from the actors was tremendously great. The movie flowed by with ease a few acceptable changes here and there but that is necessary for a book to movie adaptation. However, one thing that just set me off and pisses me off to this day has to do with a Deathly Hallow.

The Deathly Hallow’s are explained more so in the last book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow’s however they are first introduced in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The invisibility cloak that Harry possesses is one of the Deathly Hollows and as a Deathly Hollow it is impervious to magic. Yes magic, now mister director of this Harry Potter movie can you please explain to me why Luna Lovegood can simply stumble upon Harry Potter on the Hogwarts Express and with a simple spell make the cloak fly off of Harry? Hello! The cloak is impervious to magic! Now, I was sitting in the theater freaking out, how are they going to make the next movie now that they destroyed the story of the invisibility cloak as a Deathly Hallow?

Other than that horrid epic fail the movie flowed very well and kept me interested. I really thought they did a very good job with the scene where Harry and Dumbledore go to the cave. And besides the ending (they should have given Dumbledore justice by putting in his funeral) it was a good movie and I really enjoyed it. Just kidding! I thought it was a horrible adaptation this movie will be good to those who have not read the book but an epic fail to those who have read the book. Now if I were the director, I would not have skipped out on the story line of explaining Tom Riddles past. Such as his uncle and grandpa with the snake nailed to there door, or how his mother slipped her crush a love potion and then it wearing off and him leaving her. There were so many important scenes that needed to be shown and I wish they had put more of it into the movie. They should have focused on a) How Tom Riddle came to be, he worked at Borgin and Burkes ext. b) The state the Ministry of Magic was in. This movie did not do a great job making you feel how bad the state of the Wizarding World was in, they should have improved.

Sorry for my 659 words of rambling but like I said this was a very personal review.