Genre: Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
(29 votes, average: 4.31 out of 5)
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Release: 16 July 2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth edition of the Harry Potter series and was one of the most awaited releases of the year 2009. It has been described as one of the darkest Harry Potter movies so far. David Yates, who also directed The Order of Phoenix, has once again proved his abilities as an accomplished filmmaker. We can’t call the movie original, but the one thing that will attract audience to this film is its craft and consistency.
On the orders of Lord Voldemort “the worst dark wizard of all time,” Death Eaters are reaching towards and threatening Hogwarts and everything it stands for. But if you have read the books then you must know how it all plays out. After all, the phenomenal successes of Harry Potter books are the only reason behind already 5 super successful Potter movies. The books ensured that each of movies get a loyal audience that has invested so much emotion in the ongoing story that skipping any sequel is out of the question.
Starring the same cast as all the prequels – Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, the movie makes the series more believable by giving us a continuity that’s hardly found in movies these days. We have seen the stars grow up on screen.
In this edition, the Hogwarts gang is going through the mental agonies of being a teenager with many romantic angles sprouting up in the School Of Magical Arts. But, there’s much more to the Half-Blood Prince than romantic heartache. Bellatrix Lestrange (played by Helena Bonham Carter) and Draco Malfoy (played by Tom Felton) make up dark schemes, and Voldemort appears as Tom Riddle, the evilest child who ever were.
Harry has the serious tasks of recruiting faculty member Horace Slughorn (played by Jim Broadbent) to denote an old textbook annotated by a mysterious Half-Blood Prince. He rises to the occasion when Professor Dumbledore (played by Michael Gambon) tells him, “Once again I must ask too much of you.”
With an excellent cast that also includes Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane and David Thewlis; the movie has some great performances by almost everyone involved. The screenwriter Steve Kloves returns after the fourth film and does a great job in compiling the book into a short and sharp movie. Veteran British TV director who has previously worked original miniseries version of State of Play, Yates seems quite comfortable with the series. He has brought the series what it always needed, a steward who is respectful towards the novels but is not overly reverential.
As the series come to its close, and the next book will come in two parts in 2010 and 2011, it is becoming more and clearer that the series are becoming a pop culture icon and will be remembered for decades to come.
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