Notable scenes - from the meeting of the Minister of Magic with the Muggles’ prime minister at the beginning to the funeral of Professor Dumbledore at the end - have been eliminated. While the special effects are even more dazzling than in the earlier films (the Quidditch scenes, in particular, have come a long way since the first one), the emphasis here is on the characters and relationships, making “Half-Blood Prince” deeply human.įans of the books should be advised that writer Steve Kloves, who scripted four of the previous five films, and director David Yates, even more comfortable here than on “Order of the Phoenix,” have taken liberties with Rowling’s text. Instead, “Half-Blood Prince” ranks as the best of the Potter movies after Alfonso Cuaron’s dark take on “The Prisoner of Azkaban” and the most compelling in terms of exploring honest emotions. Rowling followers feared that the film version of “Half-Blood Prince” would seem stale, especially since most Muggles now know precisely how the epic series ends.
It has been four years since “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” was published, two years since the last Harry Potter film (“Order of the Phoenix”) opened and two years since the final book in the series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” hit stores. Movie 6 - ‘Half-Blood Prince’ is the best of the Harry Potter films since ‘Prisoner of Azkaban’ – The Mercury News
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