As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
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As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and
Cast:
- Harry Potter: Daniel Radcliffe
- Ron Weasley: Rupert Grint
- Hermione Granger: Emma Watson
- Horace Slughorn: Jim Broadbent
- Albus Dumbledore: Michael Gambon
- Draco Malfoy: Tom Felton
- Severus Snape: Alan Rickman
- Ginny Weasley: Bonnie Wright
- Lavender Brown: Jessie Cave
- Luna Lovegood: Evanna Lynch
- Cormac McLaggen: Freddie Stroma
- Rubeus Hagrid: Robbie Coltrane
- Bellatrix Lestrange: Helena Bonham Carter
- Minerva McGonagall: Maggie Smith
- Peter Pettigrew: Timothy Spall
- Remus Lupin: David Thewlis
- Molly Weasley: Julie Walters
- Argus Filch: David Bradley
- Filius Flitwick: Warwick Davis
- Poppy Pomfrey: Gemma Jones
- Narcissa Malfoy: Helen McCrory
- Nymphadora Tonks: Natalia Tena
- Arthur Weasley: Mark Williams
- Fenrir Greyback: Dave Legeno
- Waitress: Elarica Johnson
- Lily Potter: Geraldine Somerville
- George Weasley: Oliver Phelps
- Fred Weasley: James Phelps
- Dean Thomas: Alfred Enoch
- Marcus Belby: Robert Knox
- Twin Girl 1: Amber Evans
- Twin Girl 2: Ruby Evans
- Blaise Zabini: Louis Cordice
- Pansy Parkinson: Scarlett Hefner
- Vincent Crabbe: Jamie Waylett
- Gregory Goyle: Josh Herdman
- Neville Longbottom: Matthew Lewis
- Nigel Wolpert: William Melling
- Romilda Vane: Anna Shaffer
- Seamus Finnigan: Devon Murray
- Katie Bell: Georgina Leonidas
- Leanne: Isabella Laughland
- Padma Patil: Afshan Azad
- Parvati Patil: Shefali Chowdhury
- Mrs Cole: Amelda Brown
- Tom Riddle (11 Years): Hero Fiennes Tiffin
- Skinny Kid: Jack Pryor
- Waiter: Mark Lockyer
- Eldred Worple: Paul Ritter
- Tom Riddle (16 Years): Frank Dillane
- Male Inferi: Joerg Stadler
- Female Inferi: Caroline Wildi
- Amycus Carrow: Ralph Ineson
- Alecto Carrow: Suzie Toase
- Thorfinn Rowle: Rod Hunt
- Cho Chang: Katie Leung
- Gryffindor Student (uncredited): Nathan Clarke
- Slug Club Party Member (uncredited): Olivia Jewson
- Year 7 Schoolboy (uncredited): Freddie Rose
- Lucius Malfoy (uncredited): Jason Isaacs
Crew:
- Screenplay: Steve Kloves
- Director: David Yates
- Novel: J.K. Rowling
- Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
- Producer: David Barron
- Costume Design: Jany Temime
- Director of Photography: Bruno Delbonnel
- Editor: Mark Day
- Executive Producer: Lionel Wigram
- Casting: Fiona Weir
- Producer: David Heyman
- Production Design: Stuart Craig
- ADR Mixer: Peter Gleaves
- Foley Mixer: Glen Gathard
- Foley Artist: Peter Burgis
- ADR Recordist: Antony Bayman
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Shaune Harrison
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Paula Eden
- Foley Artist: Andie Derrick
- Foley Mixer: Ed Colyer
- Makeup Artist: Charlotte Rogers
- Special Effects Makeup Artist: Chris Lyons
- ADR Recordist: Robert Edwards
- Hairstylist: Sarah Weatherburn
- Stunt Double: David Holmes
- Stunts: Tolga Kenan
- Stunts: Marc Mailley
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Chris Shaw
- Second Unit Director: Stephen Woolfenden
- Supervising Art Director: Neil Lamont
- First Assistant Director: Jamie Christopher
- Visual Effects Producer: Emma Norton
- Unit Production Manager: Tim Lewis
- Co-Producer: John Trehy
- Makeup Designer: Nick Dudman
- Supervising Sound Editor: James Mather
- Production Manager: Russell Lodge
- Production Manager: Simon Emanuel
- Sound Editor: Jamie McPhee
- Hair Designer: Lisa Tomblin
- Visual Effects Producer: Chloe Grysole
- Art Direction: Martin Foley
- Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin
- Makeup Artist: Sharon Nicholas
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mike Dowson
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Stuart Hilliker
- Makeup Artist: Belinda Hodgson
- Visual Effects Producer: Gretchen Libby
- Sound Effects Editor: Jed Loughran
- Assistant Costume Designer: Rupert Steggle
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Riddle
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Mark Coulier
- Stunt Coordinator: Greg Powell
- Visual Effects Producer: Jill Brooks
- Visual Effects Producer: Charlotte Loughnane
- Sound Effects Editor: Dominic Gibbs
- Sound Effects Editor: Michael Fentum
- Supervising Art Director: Andrew Ackland-Snow
- Makeup Designer: Amanda Knight
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Paul Spateri
- Assistant Costume Designer: Vivienne Jones
- Assistant Costume Designer: Aimee Lisby
- Costume Supervisor: Charlotte Finlay
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul J. Franklin
- Visual Effects Producer: Dominic Sidoli
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Gregory Yepes
- Sound Effects Editor: Andy Kennedy
- Makeup Artist: Amanda Burns
- Visual Effects Producer: Oliver Money
- Stunts: Gemma Powley
- Stunts: Tilly Powell
- Stunts: Lucy Allen
- Stunt Double: Gabrielle Fritz
- Stunts: Elaine Ford
- Stunts: Amanda Foster
- Stunt Double: Joanna Whitney
- Stunts: Nina Armstrong
- Stunts: Tina Maskell
- Stunts: Helen Steinway Bailey
- Stunt Double: Alisha Smith
- Stunts: Donna Williams
- Stunt Double: Charlotte Hunter
- Stunts: Jade Gordon
- Stunts: Sarah Franzl
- Original Music Composer: Nicholas Hooper
- Art Direction: Molly Hughes
- Art Direction: Gary Tomkins
- First Assistant Editor: Kate Baird
- Art Direction: Hattie Storey
- Script Supervisor: Anna Worley
- First Assistant Editor: Hermione Byrt
- Art Direction: Tino Schaedler
- Art Direction: Alastair Bullock
- Still Photographer: Jaap Buitendijk
- Art Direction: Sloane U’Ren
- Production Sound Mixer: Stuart Wilson
- Concept Artist: Rob Bliss
- Animation Supervisor: Ferran Domenech
- Assistant Director: Matthew Sharp
- Assistant Costume Designer: Richard Davies
- Matchmove Supervisor: Selwyn Eddy
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Tim Burke
- Visual Effects Supervisor: John Moffatt
- Special Effects Supervisor: John Richardson
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Tim Alexander
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Nicolas Aithadi
- Stunts: Rowley Irlam
- ADR Editor: Daniel Laurie
Catogories:
Adventure,Fantasy
I love components, because they are adorable!!
Dark Secrets Revealed
Language:
English
Production:
United Kingdom,United States of America
Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures,Heyday Films
Popularity:
101.85
Date:
2009-07-15
Year:
2009
- John Chard: Hormones over excitement as part six is merely an appetiser to the double billed closure to come.
Death Eaters are running amok as Dumbledore has an important task for Harry and Voldermort has one for Draco; all set to the backdrop of raging adolescent hormones. While Harry also acquires a rather helpful book written by the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.
Potter 6 is not as dark as the pre-release chattings suggested it would be. Yes there’s the usual dark moments, including a shattering turn of events that sets it up nicely for the finale, but this instalment is mostly fun, gentle and even sexy. Harry, Ron & Hermione are more under threat from their own adolescent urges than they are from the swirl of a Death Eater or the appearance of one young & creepy Tom Riddle. This of course makes for good viewing to most of us who have grown with the characters, with the principal young actors having nicely grown into said characters. But can it sustain a two and half hour running time? No it can’t is the ass numbingly honest answer. There’s some quality set-pieces including Quiddich (for a change) and a swamp attack by the Death Eaters, but by and large it’s talky and breezy in equal measure.
A filler Potter movie then, one that is far breezier than expected. Good but not great, but as a set up for the epic conclusion it hits all the right buttons. 6/10
- John Chard: The seventh installment, the appetiser.
As the ultimate wizarding battle between good and evil draws ever closer, Harry, Hermione and Ron bunk off from Hogwarts to go search for the “Horcruxes” with which to halt the ever stronger Voldermort and his army, on the way they learn the importance of the Deathly Hallows artifacts.
So this is the one that sees the comfort confines of Hogwarts left behind as our intrepid trio of best pals hit the mountains and forests in search of the tools to stop old snake face in his tracks. In what is ultimately a chase/escape movie, one where the characters have to fight not only a number of challenges that come their way, but also their new found in-fighting capabilities, Deathly Hallows 1 wonderfully dangles the carrot for the final series entry to come. But the overriding thoughts you come away with from it is that firstly it’s not really that much fun, and secondly that it shouldn’t have been a stand alone movie. Too much of it plods where exposition and padding strains to get the film through its near two and half hour running time. Without the hustle and bustle of Hogwarts, and the myriad of characters that reside within, film struggles to escape the over reliance on just three central characters and a ream of MacGuffins. While some of the comedy and tender moments fall flat because tone is firmly pitched at dark clouds a gathering. However, where it does reward is with the action sequences, with David Yates once again proving he’s a considerable talent when it comes to directing such passages.
New additions to the cast list feature Rhys Ifans, Peter Mulan and Bill Nighy, all welcome, and all sadly underused. As is the return of some older characters from earlier series entries (do you remember John Hurt was in the first film?!). While the thread involving the Ministry of Magic, and its nasty transformation into a Nazi like call for non-magical folk ethnic cleansing, is supremely adult and hits the nerves as it should do. Of the three principal young adult actors, it’s still Emma Watson leading the way on ability, but alongside her, Radcliffe and Grint have earned our love and respect over the years for having to carry the weight of such expectation that has come with these roles. Fact is, is that now, having grown up with them and their characters for over ten years, we surely can accept them for not being multi ranged child actors. They have had to embody one character each for a decade, the range as such is the naturalism of aging through childhood like they have. Job done!
Tension is high and the magical moments engage big time, but the draggy nature of the beast makes this a film purely working as an appetiser to something sure to be far bigger and better. 6/10
- Gimly: Has the quality direction of _Order of the Phoenix_ but manages to separate itself from that movie by having a script that isn’t shit.
Final rating:★★★ – I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go.
- Nathan: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince may be the most mature film of the franchise with fantastic character development, but at the cost of action and a somewhat slow pace.
The beginning of the film suffers from what a lot of these films do where the audience is taken from location to location, without any explanation as to why. It is difficult to follow at times, but it’s a sacrifice that unfortunately has to be made when adapting a long novel into a feature-length film. Despite this film being the slowest of the series, it does a tremendous amount of leg work setting up the epic conclusion. From the introduction of the Horcruxes to the multiple scenes of Voldemort’s past, the audience gets a ton of background information revealing details from the previous film that creates a more coherent story structure.
Half-Blood Prince has a more focused return to Hogwarts and the class aspect which I enjoyed. Jim Broadbent’s Professor Horace was a great addition and his connection with Potter is so seamless, with some aid from the Half-Blood Prince’s textbook. Not only does Harry have great chemistry with Professor Horace, but his relationship with Dumbledore blossoms, and his reverence for the headmaster is captivating. It was great to see these two finally working together and trusting each other. Previously Harry would always hold information or Dumbledore would tell Harry to never mind, but finally, they get on the same page, and it was great to see.
This connection aids tremendously in the final scenes of the film. The trials that these two characters are put through are immense, but Harry’s trust in Dumbledore is shown in a very uncomfortable scene of Dumbledore forcing down a poison of some sort. This struggle crescendos into an incredibly impactful finale with Dumbledore, unfortunately, dying at the hands of Snape. There were some fantastic character moments between Snape and Malfoy, and the light inside both of them is hinted at in this final scene. Dumbledore’s death is felt, not only by the students of Hogwarts but by the audience as well. This is one of the more effective deaths in the series due to the audience’s time with the character, as opposed to the death of Sirius Black in the previous film.
Overall, this movie is slow and can drag on a bit. But there are some great character moments and plot developments that make this a fantastic beginning of the end for the series.
Score: 84%
Verdict Great - CinemaSerf: David Yates now really begins to take these stories to a new, potently darker level as “Harry” (Daniel Radcliffe) comes into possession of a book – formerly the property of the eponymous Prince. His skills increase exponentially and he soon begins to question whether he, himself, might be closer to the evil lord “Voldemort” than he had ever thought. The three principals are very much on the same wavelength now; the supporting cast likewise and there is even a little late hormonal activity as the awkwardness of teenage years (remember?) starts to feature too. This film also sees the arrival of Jim Broadbent as “Slughorn” – quite an engagingly enigmatic character and we can easily now sense that the battle lines are starting to be drawn… This is highly entertaining cinema. A big scale production and fine scoring builds on a strong story with characters we now know. A big screen must.
