Dark times are brewing, Harrys uncle, Sirius Black, is dead and Lord Voldemort has now come out of his hiding, causing havoc onto the world. Even the muggle world is under attack as the Phoenix Order tries its best to prevent the Dark Lord from prevailing.

The sixth chapter of the Harry Potter series has now come to the big screen. I truly enjoyed all of the books but HP6 is a bit different than the others. Unlike the rest, there is no real clear “event” happening at Hogwarts during the year, instead the book focuses a lot of it’s time on explaining the history of how an orphan called Tom Riddle, became the evil Lord Voldemort.

This put the director and his crew with a difficult task, as there really aren’t that many big events, that usually translates very well to the big screen, in it. It is impossible to fit the whole book into a 2.5h movie and so, the past of Tom Riddle were cut very short.

Instead, they tried to spice things up with sequences of action that wasn’t even in the book, yet oddly opted to leave out one of the bigger action sequences that actually were in the book.

All in all, I can’t help but being a bit disappointed by how it turned out and the movie is very slow and uneventful. It’s still worth going to see, but they can do better than this.

I must add one thing though. The movie is gorgeous. The lighting, theming, camera views everything is just a visual treat. I found myself actually looking at that parts more than the movie after a while, although, even that got a bit boring after a while.

I’ve been torn back and forth with a review, and had it not been for the visual perfection I’d give it a 2. Now it saves a bit of grace and leaves with a 3.

Other reviews: DN, SVD, The Spill

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