Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Movie Reviews

A thrilling cocktail of gloomy mystery and comical growing pains, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is easily the best of the six films in the series so far, even if it's the one in which very little happens in terms of actual plot development and crucial incidents. Setting the mood with that terrific opening scene in which evil swoops and soars into the normal world

Just one more year to go. Understandably, there's so much to do for young Mr Potter and his pals, now in their sixth year at Hogwarts. Before they enter their final year, they have to find ways to wind up their save-the-world mission by wiping out the Dark Lord and his devious ambition. Because, when the seventh year begins, it would be just do or die, with no time

I've said it before, and I say it again: The core of the Harry Potter books is closer to P G Wodehouse's school stories than to J R R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. The real magic of J K Rowling's world lies in the subliminal, deeper messages -- the importance of family, of friendship, of tolerance, acceptance and inclusiveness; that suffering ennobles man;

Two years on from the previous instalment, the sixth and penultimate chapter of the popular fantasy saga is brought to life in this sure-shot blockbuster. More than likely to meet the stratospheric expectations of millions of Potterphiles, …The Half-Blood Prince is the most impressive entry in the J.K. Rowling series.

It may appear strange that the only moment in this film when there is brightness is in the end. A dear one is dead (let's not name who, out of fear that there may still be someone who doesn't know who), and their attempts at finding Voldemort's split souls have failed. So, the sun appears for the first time, shining brightly between two rows of mountains with a meandering river flowing between

Perhaps the weakest in adaptation, but strongest in literature, The Half-Blood Prince is a sort of a keyhole between its predecessor and the final two movies (The Deathly Hallows). More of a love story than a dark adventure, the film marks the end of one of the strongest characters Dumbledore and the beginning of a quest to trace the origins of Voldemort and his accomplices.