It turns out that Daniel Radcliffe is not a fan of his performance in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” It’s not for the reason you might think, though. In fact, it has nothing at all to do with the plot and everything to do with his performances. “In every movie up to the sixth one, you can see a big step forward in my acting. And then it stopped, or went backward maybe, in the sixth film,” Radcliffe tells Playboy in a 2015 interview.
The harsh criticism didn’t stop there. “I remember watching it and thinking, Wow, there’s been no growth,” Radcliffe continues in the interview. “You’re watching a mistake you made every day for 11 months — that’s the way I saw it. I had the idea that Harry was like a soldier traumatized by war, and as a result of that, he shuts down emotionally. That’s not a bad idea, but it’s not the most interesting thing to watch for two and a half hours.”
It turns out that this movie doesn’t rank as high among the fans, either. According to Time, it was fifth in the list of all the Harry Potter movies ranked, but not for the same reason as Radcliffe. The publication says that fans aren’t the biggest fans because the movie leaves out a few key parts in the book, like why Tom Riddle “decides to create the Horcruxes.”
