Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Terrific Entertainment in Its Own League
This latest chapter of Harry Potter opens with the boy wizard, now a grown-up young man, giving an engrossing performance.
Like James Bond, the Harry Potter movies just keep immune to the outside cinematic world, set in their own universe of magic, supernatural, inferi and death eaters.
Director David Yates should have been called to the front on the red carpet to be applauded. His touch in the movie is proficient, there is a vast assortment of well conceived and executed shots and scenes, solidly constructed with lots of fine effects.
The Half-Blood Prince has wondrous art design and cinematography. Composer Nicholas Hooper, cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel and designer Stuart Craig deliver a singularly muscular and vigorous chapter with breathtaking visual and digital effects.
Fans of the series will be pleased with this adaptation from JK Rowling’s penultimate novel. At times moody, at times cheery, The Half-Blood Prince is a balanced vigorous storytelling that routinely delivers entertainment in the form of flawless visuals and spirited dialogues.
Yes, Harry Potter, the Half-Blood Prince is a dark film, without question, but there are also numerous moments of triviality leading to hilarity. The Half-Blood Prince is about friendship, hope, first love, evil, and magic and it’s all wrapped into an extraordinary epic narrative.
Movie Trivia:
There is a scene in this movie in which Death Eaters, led by Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) and Fenrir Greyback (Dave Legeno), attack The Burrow where Harry, The Weasley’s, Lupin, and Tonks are staying.
This particular scene was not in the book, but was made just for the movie to serve as a representative of all the news reports, which are scattered around in the source novel, about various attacks by Death Eaters on the wizard community.
It was considered to provide better pacing for a movie to have Harry actually experience one such attack first hand, rather than hearing/reading about those that kept happening to some other students, or their relatives.
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