He is persecuted by the authorities for this breach of etiquette, a form of institutional hounding that has its roots in the wicked Voldemort's influence, and Harry himself winds up forming an alternative rebel gang of students who must go it alone to take on the evil forces. Harry Potter has once again gone dark, and what this means is an exciting and moody opening sequence in which Harry confronts some bullies and then, against all the rules, uses his secret magic powers in front of civilians, or "muggles", to slay some fierce beasts - Dementors. "Wet," replies Harry unselfconsciously, and adding after a nicely judged pause: "She'd been crying."īafta-winning British director David Yates takes over the reins here, and once again the emphasis on that most over-rated and under-understood concept: dark. "What was it like?" ask his friends Ron and Hermione. His description of the kiss is incidentally the best dialogue exchange in the film. Perhaps Harry is not entirely ready to leave the asexual world of childhood after all. Soon Harry Potter will be actually doing the noisome deed itself, going for trendier glasses at Specsavers, or contact lenses, or zipping over to Moscow for corrective eye surgery he'll be going on Facebook and going tombstoning every weekend.īut, yes, here is the film where Potter gets some serious romance, with fellow Hogwarts scholar Cho Chang, played by Katie Leung - though bafflingly, and rather ungallantly, her character is completely dumped from the action after the snog, and she doesn't even get to be one of his gang of pals who finally confront the lord of all evil in the final reel. Hang on: the fifth? The fifth? Where has the time gone?Įliot's Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons British film writers measure out theirs by Daniel Radcliffe's growth spurts - made more heartstopping here by flashback glimpses of his teeny, tiny bespectacled self from the first movie, which came out. Harry's premier snog is very much the USP of this, the fifth Harry Potter film. H arry Potter kissing a girl? Harry Potter getting some osculatory action? Harry Potter.
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