Once, I believed that the films could theoretically convert newcomers to fanhood, but they are actually for signed-up fans only: competently managed big-screen renderings of a lucrative brand.Īs drama, they are becoming more and more inert, crammed with tiny events and minor characters that are spurious, pointless and, frankly, dull. But I feel an inexorable disenchantment with this franchise settling in, a sense of familiarity and stamina-loss amounting to a crisis of Potterist faith. This latest Potter has some spectacular imagery, and director David Yates is a safe pair of hands there are some nice moments and the tragic ending lands with a crash of timpani.
But who knows? Maybe that second half will be split, and then the second half of that will separate, and like characters in a lost paradox by the pre-Socratic thinker Zeno, cinemagoers will never actually reach the end of the Potter films. The seventh and final volume, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is reportedly going to be divided into two films. Half-Blood Prince is the penultimate book, but antepenultimate movie.
Darker, more hormonal, more teenage-angsty and sadly more boring, the Potter franchise is back.
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