Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Release date: 2009-07-15
Country: UK|USA
Language: English
Director: David Yates
Production Co: Warner Bros., Heyday Films
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Rating: 7.6/10
Length: 2h 33min

Storyline

In Harry Potter's (Daniel Radcliffe's) sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, he finds a book marked mysteriously, "This book is the property of the Half Blood Prince", which helps him excel at Potions class and teaches him a few dark and dangerous ones along the way. Meanwhile, Harry is taking private lessons with Dumbledore (Sir Michael Gambon) in order to find out about Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes') past so they can find out what might be his only weakness.

Plot Keywords

good versus evil, foaming at the mouth, professor, lifting a female into the air, hourglass, witchcraft, necklace, remorse, broken nose, revelation, closing eyes of dead person, rain, cut hand, broken glass, dead bird, year 1996, fireplace, seizure, evil child, chandelier

Short Review

I think it's the best of the series, fairly easily, and a testament to why occasionally throwing a massive budget at an endeavor of this scope can be considered a reasonable decision.