Download Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie

As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past.

1,637 Comments »

Pages: [328] 327 326 325 324 323 322 321 320 319 318 … 1 »

The series takes its final turns with pure greatness

The Harry Potter series has always been on shaky ground and yet after
four installments the series only got better and better. All the things
you were concerned about…the children aging, keeping the quality from
the books (I have never read ANY of the books)…and the series was
just mind blowing. Then there was a stumble, a hiccup so to speak.
Order of The Phoenix was still brilliant but there was something there
that made me think maybe the series was on it's way down in quality.
Instead they return guns blazing (metaphorically) with The Half Blood
Prince. This installment could be considered completely different than
any other before it. There is far more drama, romance, friendship,
mystery and suspense and the usual action, Quidditch, and intensity is
perhaps toned down to make this bridge between the previous film and
the epic upcoming two part finale which I am on the edge of my seat
waiting for. Director David Yates obviously has a passion for these
characters and more than any other previous director he manages to
really put heart and soul into our familiar Hogwart's family. He uses
the brilliant characters to bring them to life from the novels.Of course the old faithful original cast returns. I'm not going to run
them all down because the world knows who they are. Every single film
that is released in this series reminds us that this casting is perhaps
one of the greatest in film history. They all literally become the
characters and bring them to life. They will forever be tied to these
characters, both the children (who are less children now and more
adults) and the teachers. I was quite saddened to see depleted rolls
for both the amazing Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) and the wonderful Minerva
McGonagall (Maggie Smith.) Perhaps that is just the way the story goes
but I missed them. I also must mention that Alan Rickman is still
amazing and STILL darkly mysterious as Professor Snape. His character
is really getting darkly interesting and I can't wait to see where the
story goes with him. Bonnie Wright really breaks out in the cast as
Ginny Weasley. She has been in every film I believe but this is the
first time we really get to see her break out. Aren't they lucky she
grew up to be pretty and charismatic opposite Daniel Radcliffe.Despite the action being toned down the visuals are no less stunning.
Some of the beautifully created cinematography. I would have loved to
have seen this on IMAX as I did with some of the others. Hogwarts is no
less stunningly beautiful as it has always been, perhaps moreso. Author
J.K. Rowling HAS to be blown away and amazed by what Yates and the film
makers has done to bring this world to life. Amazingly seeing some of
the familiar locations and characters and monsters (like the incredibly
eerie death eaters) never get old and never lose their fascination and
that alone is an impressive part of the Harry Potter series. If you
haven't seen this series don't see this movie because you need to go
back and start right from the beginning and when you get to this one
SEE IT because it's integral to the series, bridges a gap and brings
out a whole new level of emotion to the series. Perhaps the greatest
fantasy film series ever made period. 9/10

Robert W. (Robert_duder@hotmail.com) from Ontario, Canada - 25 August 2009

The book – great steak — the movie – not even hamburger

I agree with the other parties comments on this specific movie.
Half-Blood Prince was extremely chopped up, jumped around scenes too
quickly, and was too focused on romance. I've read and listened to the
unabridged audio book of HP #6, and there was not enough information in
so many of the scenes to make heads or tails of things. Granted the
movie was about 2 1/2 hours long, it could have stood for some axing of
the romance, or putting in another 15-30 minutes of scene filler to
give more definition of what was going on. I tried to take it in the
view of a person who had never heard or read the series, and I think
that person would have thought the director had a channel changer
remote control mentality or some sort of attention deficit disorder.
The Order of the Phoenix movie suffered some of that as well, but
seemed to have a better following story line than this one. And with
Deathly Hallows being a two-parter, I hope the story line is not so
chopped up.

simon15-1 from United States - 24 August 2009

Pages: [328] 327 326 325 324 323 322 321 320 319 318 … 1 »

Leave your Impressions!