AppsScraps Movie Reviews

Aug 14, 2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Release date: 6 July 2009 (Tokyo, Japan)

The regulars return for the next to last installment of the Potter juggernault with David Yates directing. Everyone knows their role here and Daniel Radcliffe (as Harry Potter), Michael Gambon (as Professor Dumbledore), Jim Broadbent (as Professor Horace Slughorn), Emma Watson (as Hermione), Helena Bonham Carter (as Bellatrix Lestrange) and Alan Rickman (as the creepy Professor Snape) pull them off with complete credibility. The film continues the genre's look and feel and recreates the world of wizardry and witchcraft with stunning realness while keeping the usual tongue in cheek laughs and budding romances in the mix. It's all very well done. But after what has been too many of these movies and the fact the film is too long by half, I just want little Harry to get on with it and knock-off Voldemort so we call it a day already.

My rating 7 out of 10.

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