Wednesday, July 08, 2009

'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince' - Film Review


From nme, [excerpt] The film itself? Well, it's a modern blockbuster, which of course means it's enormously long (over two-and-a-half hours), self-consciously 'dark', and is almost entirely free of any kind of plot - unless you count some waffle about Voldemort hiding bits of his soul in various trinkets.

By the same token, being a modern blockbuster, it's also crammed with retina-frazzling CGI set-pieces. The opening sequence, in particular, is staggering – a warp-speed Death Eater attack on London in which the Millennium Bridge is ripped apart by fireballs.

REad full review here

1 comment:

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Where's the haiku topic?

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