How much of an F up was "The Half Blood Prince"

It's for sure the worst of the Harry Potter movies. It's just ridiculous, especially given since I think HBP is the best of the novels.

I mean, the scene where Bellatrix and the Death Eaters go to the Burrow... why wouldn't Voldemort himself go and kill Harry if they could find him? It's really as if the Death Eaters got shitfaced during Christmas, and then decided to drunkenly frick with Harry and the Weasleys.

And then the love story was awful, especially since it would mean nothing in the following film. What did matter though was Voldemort's backstory. They just showed the orphanage and the Slughorn memories. Why not show the rest of them? To make way for the shitty love story and the Death Eaters driving back roads drunk on Christmas? Ron and Hermione should have been sidelined for the movie with the film being centrally focused on Harry, Dumbledore, Snape, and Draco.

They fricked it up so much that they were forced to leave out the best scene in the film because it ridiculously clashed with the shitty tone that they set up: LINK

That should have been the tone of the entire film. David Yates is really not that good of a film maker, and if they possibly could, should have brought Alfonso Cuaron back on to direct, HBP in particularly. He would have done it perfectly. Instead at the end we just have Snape telling Harry half assly that he's the Half Blood Prince and they light their wands. Yeah, great stuff there instead of Snape and Harry going after it yelling at each other over the roaring flames with Harry being utterly devistated on what happened.