An average movie

To be honest, I have never been really a fan of Harry Potter but my wife really loved the first installments so we went to see this one in the theater as a date. It was the first HP movie we saw in the theater and we would eventually watch all the following sequels in the theater but with the kids this time. I must admit it, there was at some point a nice progression with this franchise. Indeed, ‘Azkaban’ was finally a decent entry and ‘The Goblet of Fire’ was my favorite so far so I was really intrigued to see how this new movie would turn out to be. Unfortunately, this flick was eventually rather disappointing and a step-down in my opinion. At least, Daniel Radcliffe easily gave his best performance so far and the whole thing was rather entertaining and visually rather appealing with some pretty cool special effects but I thought that the story was seriously underwhelming. Indeed, the whole concept of most people not believing that Voldermort was back was just really weak and misguided in my opinion. Furthermore, the whole thing about Harry Potter finally getting a girlfriend was poorly developed  and really anti-climatic. Finally, the last thing that really bothered me was the fact that the whole franchise shift its focus. Indeed, from that point, the whole school life which had been a major element in the franchise didn't really matter anymore and, suddenly, it became all about fighting Voldemort which I found rather boring and disappointing. Back then, I saw this movie in IMAX with, at the end, about 15 minutes in 3D. That was before the whole 3D swindle started with ‘Avatar’. I thought it was not bad, especially the sequence in the library where all those glass balls falling on the ground. To conclude, even though it seemed that this franchise was showing some improvement, with this installment, it became pretty obvious that these movies wouldn’t deliver anything really amazing, at least, that’s my opinion. Still, it remains a well made and entertaining blockbuster and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.