Harry Potter and the epic failure of a movie

WARNING: HERE BE SPOILERS

I'm going at assume if you're reading this, you've read Harry Potter. All 7 of them. Or up to 6 at least. I mean, c'mon, 90% of the population of the UK must have, what with those special "Adult versions" so people can read them on the train without looking like a weirdo reading a kid's book.

I'm amazed at the hack job Steve Kloves has done on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. His adaptions for Books 1-4 were pretty much brilliant, although he did cram a little too much in to each. Sadly, the same doesn't apply for book 6 (He didn't adapt book 5), instead he appears to have taken the opposite approach and included FUCK ALL from the book whilst dreaming up his own scenes (which whilst quite cool, don't really add much and also destroyed the plot for films 7 and 8).
A lot of the film focused on the teenage relationships, which whilst amusing, were drawn out too long and clearly aimed at people who are completely retarded and never had a relationship in their life. For example, the way the script was written probably looked like this:

OBVIOUS GINNY LIKES HARRY SHOT
OBVIOUS HARRY LIKES GINNY SHOT
GINNY LIKES HARRY
HARRY LIKES GINNY
GOT IT YET? NOPE, OK.
GINNY. YEAH. HER. RON'S SISTER. SHE LIKES HARRY. YES, HARRY POTTER!
HARRY. YES. THE TWIT WITH THE LIGHTNING SCAR. HE LIKES GINNY. YES, RON'S SISTER.
GINNY. LIKES. HARRY.
HARRY. LIKES. GINNY.
GOOD. GOT IT? YES? OK.

Now repeat that with Ron/Hermione. Yeah, the entire film is like that. It gets incredibly annoying after a while, being treated like you have the emotional range of a teaspoon (Ah! You see what I did there?).
So, that rant over. What else is wrong with it? The distinct removal of about 80% of the main plot from the book. Admittedly yes they have to cut parts, but it's getting beyond ridiculous now. I've always wondered about how they'd cope with bringing Dobby back after him being absent for 4 films, but now they've got a hell of a job on their hands re-introducing old characters and bringing in new ones, as about 75% of the people in the final book are vital to the plot.
Even in this film, Major characters such as Hagrid and Snape had ridiculously lowered screentime. Yes it's called "Harry Potter" for a reason, but at the same time the entire plot doesn't revolve around him. The distinct removal of Bill, Fleur, Scrimgeour, the history of Voldemort, and countless other parts left me severely dissapointed and confused as the plot hurtled along, jumping massive sections of the book and either assuming you'd read the book so knew what was going on, or just didn't give a shit what you were watching. Overall, scenes felt stripped down, confused, and generally rushed, resulting in multiple scenes with NO emotional depth at all. The massive scene in the book of Dumbledore's death is cut short in this, with no following battle or chase through Hogwarts. Whether this was to attempt a sharp, shock ending, I don't know, but it just falls flat as you've had no chance to grasp at what exactly is going on or why. All this leads up to a very short running time (2hrs 14mins - I was expecting close to 3 hours to be honest), leaving an abrupt ending and a bit of a sour taste in the mouth, even with a bag of sweet popcorn and a pint of cider.

6/10 - Probably the poorest film so far when focusing on pure adaption and plotline, sadly lacking the depth and darkness of the book. On the plus side, it's not as odd as film 3, and quidditch makes a welcome return after being absent from film 5. Watchable, but by no means the exciting adventure film portrayed in the trailers, it instead ends up feeling like a bit of a rom-com.