Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Hey all,

Last night I saw the newest edition to the Harry Potter series on opening day so I decided to write down my critique of the film. I wouldnt read this if you are planning on watching the film yourself.


I will start with the bad since overall, it was a great movie:

1. The ending. The movie ends just minutes after Dumbeldore dies, and unlike the book, Harry is not frozen under his cloak. In the book, Dumbeldore uses his last move before Draco disarms him to freeze Harry so that he could not interfer, while in the movie, he tells Harry to wait downstairs, where he runs into Snape right before Snape kills Dumbeldore. After this scene in the book, there is about a 20 page fight sceene where it is the D.A. and the order vs. the Death Eaters. I think if they had included this, I would not have been so depressed after the movie ended minutes after Dumbeldore died, playing very solemn music throught the credits, which made it worse.

2. The little details. This movie did a great job with the overall plot line, but left many details that do not correlate with the book. Besides the obvious one mentioned above during Dumbeldores death, there are a few others that I noticed. Before Harry and Dumbeldore leave to find the Horcrux, Harry overhears a conversation between Dumbeldore and Snape where Snape says something like "What if I do not want to do this anymore", and Dumbeldore says, "You agreed". Those of us who have read the 7th book in the series understand what this is about. Harry had no clue about Dumbeldore and Snape working together until Snape dies in the 7th book, holding the memory that Harry uses to find out the real story about Dumbeldore's death.

3. The memories. The memories were a great edition to the movie, but in the book there were at least 4 or 5 memories that Dumbeldore had shown Harry not two before Sluhorns real memory. This left gaps about ideas such as Dumbeldore and Harry discusing what the remaining Horcuxes are.

The good:

1.The graphics. Overall this movie had he best graphics out of any movie that I have seen. I especially like the scenes with the Death Eaters crashing the bridge, and the Quidditch match.

2.Overall plotline. This movie amazingly got in the key details that other movies like it have not. It follows the plot line of Harry, Ron, and Hermione overhearing Draco in Borgin and Burkes, Draco consistently disappearing off of the Maruaders Map, and letting the Death Eaters into the school.

Overall this was a great movie, with a horrible ending.