Review - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Just want to start by saying that this review is based solely on the movie and will not be compared to the book besides the following few sentences. Obviously, the movie (like majority of adaptaions) does not hold up to the book. Parts were changed, left out, or just skimmed over (Dumbledore's death scene was changed and not as powerful as the books, death eaters were relatively scarce in the movie, and much more) and, yes, that definitely takes away from the movie.

But, the movie was good, entertaining, exciting, semi-emotional, and funny. This is the film when Harry and others are growing up and becoming teenagers and starting to look at the opposite sex. I got to say, the casting directors disappointed me by not having any real lookers for eye candy. Emma Watson did look really good though at points throughout it, and just from experience when I met her in person, she's hot. Plain and simple she's a hot girl (she's 19 so I can say that legally). The storyline was really good too beginning with Harry off on his own in London through love interests and Dumbledore's death. I would have preferred Harry to go a little more crazier than he did when Dumbledore died, but that's just me. Also, Dumbledore's death scene lacked emotion except for when everyone was grouped around his fallen body, would've preferred to have felt more. And it's about time that Quidditch was back in game, only for a few minutes, but it was back and as always fun as sh*t to watch. Ron was a good comic relief, and there was a good amount of humor which is always good to have.

The visuals were stunning. From the sets created, the magic, flying death eaters, just all of the CGI and set design were really impressive looking. The Weasley Magic shop was really cool too, and again I wished they added more of these side stories into the film. I luckily go to see it in IMAX (will come to more IMAX screens in 2 weeks) and the 3D beginning was sick. It was disappointing when you had to take the glasses off. And, for a 2 hr 30 min movie there was maybe one slow point, but that was it, and if that's it, then that's a good paced movie. The only real reason it's PG is because there's a lack of violence going on since that's going to be coming in bucket fulls in the final two films. Overall, definitely worth to see if you've seen the previous Potter flicks, it's a really good movie that kept you entertained throughout, it did leave out parts from the book, but man o man it would be so freaking cool to have powers like that or at least some of that Liquid Luck. Too bad it's not real. In the end, go see this film in theaters, it's actually worth the money. Click Here for the trailer.

Rating: 4/5 Bs