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Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I did try to keep an open mind, knowing that this was a fan-made film. Unfortunately, I was unable get pass the first 15 minutes.Firstly, the story ideas in this film strayed too far from Tom Riddle's original backstory in the books to my liking. Particularly the whole Soviet Wizards idea and the founders' descendants gathering in the Room of Requirement. It was emphasised a lot in the books that the only thing close to friends that Riddle had were his followers, later known as Death Eaters. So it was difficult believing that Riddle continuously met up with these other students during his time at Hogwarts. Also, changing Hepzibah's death into something more dramatic ended up being disappointing - being a huge fan of the books, it just didn't seem like a Riddle thing to do (although, for this version of Tom Riddle, I guess it was acceptable).Secondly, the acting and the script is very poor. From the scenes I watched, the dialogue seemed forced, which isn't a good sign. The actors just didn't seem to "live" or "become" their characters. But, of course, I understand that they're amateurs and not professionals. Often bad acting can stem from a bad script, which I believe is the case for this movie. Some of the dialogue was cringe-worthy, especially that first conversation with Riddle and McLaggen. Speaking of which, I was gobsmacked when McLaggen said she was a 2nd year student - she looked old enough to be 5th year student. If it were possible, they should have cast someone younger because her saying "I'm only a second year" sounded ridiculous. Going back to the script, apparently the better scenes, which I have yet to see, were the ones based off J.K. Rowling's writing in Half Blood Prince.As many have stated, special effects are commendable for a low-budget movie. Whilst it sometimes resembled some sort of video game, it was mostly acceptable. There was a review on Wikipedia about the special effects being even better than the ones in official Potter films - unfortunately, I cannot agree.I would have liked to see a bit more with costume/make-up/hairstyling. Particularly the look of McLaggen could have been better - she's supposed to be living in the 1940s-1970s. But instead, especially as a Hogwarts student, she looks too modern. Because she's a main character, it did become a bit distracting. Music was not bad but also not memorable or fantastic.For the sake of this review, I did glimpse a few of the later scenes of the movie but I couldn't watch all of it. However, after seeing this, I was compelled to go back to Chamber of Secrets and Half Blood Prince to re-watch Christian Coulson's, Frank Dilane's and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin's portrayals of Tom Riddle to forget this fan-made film.

I can't find anything good to say about this... I would have stopped watching it at the beginning, but I did because I am fan.Storyline was awful, there was nothing newly created in the story, the shots were really bad, visual effects were mostly bad, acting was beyond horrible.I wish it was at least a good story so that I would support this movie....

Im putting this into a "Fan Film" genre, just to have my rating make sense. If this was done by professionals, 2/10. Horrible Storyline, which could be done better even with an extremely low budget. Since it is NOT, easily 8/10. The Actor of Tom was great tho, I could see him play in a Professional made Movie for sure.

Well just sat down and watched this movie, I really hope another will be made and soon. This was really loads better than i thought. I really enjoyed it. Thought has been put into this and also being fan made the quality was as good as most movies being made today. reading some of the other reviews i wanted to leave an honest opinion of this movie too. They seem to moan about story lines a lot, I didn't think the makes had done a bad job really. gave me flash backs to the books especially the Smith house. Without spoiling it. overall i rated this title highly because of a few things. Fan made, we all know how they can turn out. lol. Well this was different. brilliant cinematography, obviously had a really good director. Budget, I have no idea how much this cost to put into production but it looked expensive even though i am sure it wasn't. remember Twilight, low budget and you could tell, that took off and was a massive success well i hope this is just as big for the makers. they absolutely deserve it. well done. Please make more and i hope now that WB have seen it they stump up some cash to assist too.