The critics might have hailed this movie as a masterpiece. And the box office collections might be extremely encouraging.

But has the average buzz18 user liked Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? We invited our users to write in their reviews. And this is what they had to say:

'Great film but not a good recreation of the book'

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince starts off at the end of the last film right after Voldemort appears at the Ministry of Magic. The first two thirds of the movie is filled with great acting CGI and music but in the last part, the film simply trails off.

What happens for instance to the fight between the Death Eaters and the Hogwarts' students and the Order? Or to Dumbledore's funeral? The film ends with Dumbledore's Phoenix flying away, which begs the question where will the elder wand end up in the last film?

And then the Burrow is destroyed too, which makes me wonder where the wedding will take place in the last film.

Since they also took out the final fight scene Bill was not bitten by Fenir Greyback. So where does that leave Bill? Will he be a werewolf in the last film or a normal person? All in all it is a great film in its own rights but if u look at it as a recreation of the book it

The film does however have a few great moments. Like that one when after seeing Ron and Lavender together Hermione asks Harry if that's what it feels like when he sees Ginny with Dean.

All in all Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a great film in its own right. But if you look at it as a recreation of the book, the movie leaves a lot to be desired

First it was Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen and then it was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. For perhaps the first time in a long while two big-ticket Hollywood blockbusters have made a dent in the collections of Hindi movies for two weeks consecutively.

Last week the boy wizard cast his spell at the box office and managed to spoil the party for Vishesh Films' Jashnn and Rahat Kazmi's Dekh Re Dekh.

Needless to say the three releases of the week before that – Shortkut..., Sankat City and Morning Walk – have ended up as box office disasters too.

Harry Potter star Emma Watson plans to become a make-up artiste if her movie career falters.

A website reports, the teenager has garnered a mammoth $15 million fortune playing Hermione Granger in the wizard franchise and despite that Watson insists she'd be just as happy powdering the noses of movie stars.

"If I hadn't been an actress I would have happily been a make-up artiste. I love make-up. Being around make-up girls all the time you pick up loads of stuff – I'll go down there at lunch and use some of their products," she said.

"I love doing up my flatmate before she goes out," she added.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe says though he "loves girls" and enjoys their company, they don't find him attractive because he is "nerdy and geeky".

"I'm not particularly a Lothario with women at all, really. I mean, I love women's company and I love talking to girls. I've always had more friends who are girls than guys because I've always found them more interesting, for obvious reasons.

"I love girls, I really do. They're just sort of heavenly creatures. They're wonderful. But I don't know, it's umm... I mean I don't find it hard to talk to girls," thesun.co.uk quoted him as saying.

Radcliffe starrer Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, the sixth instalment of the wizard franchise, hit the screens worldwide Friday.

"I'm not one of these guys who freezes up with girls. I like having conversations with them, but I don't think they probably like having conversations with me. I'm quite nerdy and geeky and I'm not particularly cool," Radcliffe confessed.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe says though he "loves girls" and enjoys their company, they don't find him attractive because he is "nerdy and geeky".

"I'm not particularly a Lothario with women at all, really. I mean, I love women's company and I love talking to girls. I've always had more friends who are girls than guys because I've always found them more interesting, for obvious reasons.

"I love girls, I really do. They're just sort of heavenly creatures. They're wonderful. But I don't know, it's umm... I mean I don't find it hard to talk to girls," thesun.co.uk quoted him as saying.

Radcliffe starrer Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, the sixth instalment of the wizard franchise, hit the screens worldwide Friday.

"I'm not one of these guys who freezes up with girls. I like having conversations with them, but I don't think they probably like having conversations with me. I'm quite nerdy and geeky and I'm not particularly cool," Radcliffe confessed.

The sixth installment of Harry Potter has smashed US box office records by raking in a whopping $22.2 million in less than 24 hours and it is said to be the best midnight opening of all times. The booking for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opened Wednesday.

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, the film hit the screens worldwide Thursday. It has topped The Dark Knight midnight earnings of $18 million when it was released last summer and the $17 million earnings grossed by Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith in 2005, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The latest Harry Potter movie has even cast its spell over a record number of Potter fans – the new film drew more devotees in its first few hours on show than 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which took $12 million on its first day of release.

...Half-Blood Prince will topple the Transformers action sequel as the world's most popular film of the year, if opening figures are anything to go by – Revenge of the Fallen 12-day total stood at $600 million, say experts.

A thrilling cocktail of gloomy mystery and comical growing pains, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is easily the best of the six films in the series so far, even if it's the one in which very little happens in terms of actual plot development and crucial incidents.

Setting the mood with that terrific opening scene in which evil swoops and soars into the normal world with explosive black trails of smoke destroying London's monuments, the film remains fiercely faithful to the book, and makes no attempts to woo Harry Potter virgins who will struggle to appreciate this as a stand-alone picture.

Starting off at the point where the Death Eaters are wreaking havoc in London, The Half-Blood Prince follows Dumbeldore as he asks Harry to help persuade retired Potions Master Horace Slughorn to return to Hogwarts, with the aim of retreiving a buried memory from Slughorn's past that will prove crucial in the upcoming fight against Voldemort.

Meanwhile, Hogwarts has been hit by a flood of raging hormones. While Harry struggles with his feelings for Ginny Weasley, Ron starts going out with Lavender Brown, which upsets a jealous Hermione. Draco Malfoy is behaving suspiciously too, but he seems preoccupied with a mysterious vanishing cabinet.

Imaginatively visualised and stylishly filmed, The Half-Blood Prince is packed with stunning sequences like the suspenseful chase between Bellatrix and Harry in a wheat field, and a breathless conflict between Draco and Harry in a Hogwarts bathroom.

The film's one sole flaw is that at two-and-a-half-hours it's way too long and unforgivably slow in some stretches.



The genius, yet again, lies in the endearing performances and the lighter moments. Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, steals the film with his comic delivery, especially that scene he performs under the influence of the love potion; and Brit thespian Jim Broadbent is ace as the bumbling Professor Slughorn.

There is a sense of comfort and familiarity each time you settle down to watch a new Harry Potter film because you know the characters, you care for them now, and you want them to be safe. The relationship between Harry, Ron and Hermione remains the lifeblood of these stories, and it's to the credit of the three actors who play these parts that they bring a degree of warmth and affection to their scenes together.



In a sense, The Half-Blood Prince is really the set-up story for the next instalment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows which will be split into two films. It lays the groundwork for what will happen next and succeeds in leaving you with a foreboding sense of doom.

Complaints against the plot and against the omission of several incidents from the book feel redundant when you look the film as a whole. For followers of the franchise, this is potent stuff and a very worthy companion piece to the rest. I'm going with two thumbs up and four out of five for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Directed remarkably by David Yates, this is exactly what fans have been waiting for.