Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

10 reviews for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

1. 

   Rated 3 out of 5

   Midge – July 25, 2025

   3.0 out of 5 stars

   Love Potter series… TERRIBLE Director!!!

   I agree with Geoff. I love the Potter series and I love the movies… until this one. I was positively mortified and left hanging with a lifeless conclusion of an almost unrecognizable movie; butchered by Yates.While I realize things have to be omitted and trimmed for reasons of time and expense, there was no excuse for the butchering this Director Yates did to this movie. He didn’t trim… he decided to rewrite the entire book to his own version… as if he thought he could do a better job than a billionaire author? It had nothing to do with saving money either. Did it not occur to him that hundreds of millions of fans had already read the book and were expecting some semblance of similarity between the movie and the book? Did they think they would win brownie points with ANY of us by butchering our story? We don’t go to the Potter movies to see something different. We go to see a video version of the books we read because we enjoyed the books… not a hack job by some hack director trying to rewrite the series. Where the heck were the executive controls at WB who should have been watching what Yates was doing? And who did Yates blackmail to get the last 2 movies after what he did to this one? It certainly was not a case of talent on his part.I had to reread the book to make sure I didn’t miss something. The things this director did to butcher this movie did nothing to improve the story or save money and were completely unnecessary. We have to wonder if Yates ever bothered to read the books. I shudder to think what this poor excuse for a director will do to the final two movies. We’ll watch it because we have no choice… but I can guarantee, after the Potter films, I will never, ever watch another movie directed by Yates… ever again. I hope everyone else boycotts his future ambitions as well.Burning down the Weasley’s home… what purpose did that serve except to upset all of the fans? It was disrespectful like having someone spit on your family heirlooms. It did nothing to improve the movie or “move along” the progress of the movie. It had no useful purpose whatsoever and certainly did not please any of the movie fans and wasted the original Christmas scene… which would not have required as many expensive CGI’s as this distorted Yates version used.Same with the exclusion of the interaction with the Dursely’s and Dumbledore… so instead this terrible director has Harry hanging out in the underground metro diner hitting on some waitress while reading the daily profit out in the open… while Dumbledore appears outside the metro station dressed in his usual Wizard robes for all the muggles to see…. Not only was this totally in contradiction with the book, it served no useful purpose except to leave the entire audience wondering if they were watching the right movie. A dud of an opener.The exclusion of Kreacher and Harry’s inheriting Sirius’s home made no sense whatsoever. Kreacher is a big part of the final book.There is no semblance of a relationship between Harry and Ginny. That entire endeavor has fallen flat and nothing they can do will spark that part of the storyline now. There is zero magic between them. In fact, there is much more magic between Neville and Ginny than there is with Harry. Every relationship they have tried with Harry has been a dud. Hermione would have been the only one which might have worked.The relationship with Lavender and Ron was just terrible. Talk about “over acting!” They could have cut that part out and none of us would have missed it.Neville was almost nonexistent in the movie and that’s a shame. He adds a lot to the stories.Cutting out all of the storyline about Riddle’s family was cutting out the heart of why Voldemort is so obsessed about hating muggles and the hypocrisy of it.Then there was this ridiculous Yates version of the potions book. Like others have commented… Snape didn’t even react to Harry nearly killing Malfoy. He didn’t even act upset as he calmly healed Malfoy’s wounds… and unlike the book, Harry wasn’t even punished. Part of that punishment would have given Harry an insight as to how cruel his own father had been toward Snape.Yet, Yates completely changed the story where Harry put the book in the room of requirement with the Tiara on top of it… which is critical for the ending of the final book. It is substituted with some ridiculous scene with Ginny hiding the book… ending with a flat moment of meaningless intimacy.The worst moment of the movie by Yates is where Harry remained quietly below, watching while Dumbledore was being accosted and killed… where in the book, he had been paralyzed by Dumbledore and covered with his cloak so he could not interfere. I can’t see where changing this scene saved a single penny or a single moment of time. What it did was to be completely out of character for Harry to just stand there gaping while his mentor was killed. This was totally unpalatable for fans.Then, out of the blue, Snape declares himself to be the Half Blood Prince… when there wasn’t any reason given in the movie as to why Snape would even be aware that Harry was familiar with that name or the book… other than the fact that he had used one of his own spells on him… but there was no connecting storyline in the film that made his statement make any sense. It was just blurted totally out of context.The big let down was the ending. There was no ending. It just faded away without any climax or closure. It ended with a dud.I don’t know what WB is thinking… but they are allowing Yates to make enemies out of millions… hundreds of millions of fans. That is a huge fan base to upset just to protect some hack director who is butchering the most popular series of books ever published. I cannot imagine where their heads are… certainly not anywhere we can describe in public… Just like the idiots who cancelled Star Trek… a billion dollar franchise. Shallow thinking pitbulls who can’t leave a good thing alone… and then blame everyone but themselves when they shoot themselves in the foot.Yes… we go to the Harry Potter movies expecting to see what we read in the book with the understanding that they don’t have time to include everything. We do not go to the Harry Potter movies to see the story changed or rewritten.There is only one thing that all the fans would agree on having rewritten…. and that would be to use the resurrection stone to bring back Sirius, Dumbledore and everyone else who was killed in the series… including Harry’s parents and Snape. If WB and Yates want to change something… then change that! That is the one change we would welcome… and it might be enough to salvage WB’s reputation from this hack job they allowed to be perpetrated on our movie series.

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2. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Kitty Cat – July 25, 2025

   4.0 out of 5 stars

   Well……

   First off, I gave it 4 stars because compared to the other movies, it was closest to the book, even if they did do some stupid changes to it. Plus, I love Harry Potter, and am a HUGE fan of all books and movies. However, the reasons below are why it did not get 5 stars.ATTENTION!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!I have to agree, that there were many things about this movie that was really, really disappointing. The scenes left out, most disappointing, can we get a movie that at least sticks to the books entirely? The scenes added…burning the Burrow down, honestly, what the hell was the person who thought that up smoking? It leaves so many open questions as to how well they are going to do the next two movies.The pensive/Dumbledore’s lessons were not given enough time. In the seventh book, the pensive plays an important role in how Harry comes to realize Severus Snape was really on his side, and truly had cared for his mother, which plays a role in the final fight against Voldemort. Not to mention, showing Harry the reasons why Dumbledore did what he did.Burning down of the Burrow means that they are either NOT going to show the scene where they get Harry from the Dursley’s to the Burrow, or they are going to change it. Plus, they will either change or leave out the wedding, which means they will need to change how they show that the ministry has fallen. In turn, that means changing most of the facts from the movie, including how the death eaters catch Harry, Ron and Hermione, since saying “Lord Voldemort” made the enchantments break due to the death eaters in the ministry making it so. Not to mention Rufus Scrimgeour (minister of magic) dying and to Harry’s surprise, protecting him and not revealing his whereabouts. How in the world are they going to have anything at the Burrow with it burnt down? And if they are going to have the Burrow in the next movie, it means an unnecessary scene of explaining how the damn thing is still there, which they will HAVE to do since putting that scene in. It was entirely unnecessary to have the Burrow burn down, even if they did have the death eaters show up there…. Oh, and at the wedding is when we are first introduced to the deathly hallows, the sign on Xenophilius Lovegood’s robes, and Viktor Krum introducing the first of the backround that they find out about it. It does play a role as well in their ‘quest’ in the 7th movie.Okay, enough on that scene, what about adding the beginning in like that…he was supposed to be waiting for Professor Dumbledore at the Dursleys..Dumbledore had much, and I mean much to say to the Dursleys, including reprimanding them for not treating Harry as he had asked them to. Plus, he tells Harry of him owning Grimwald place and Kreacher. Hmm, doesn’t a big chunk of the 7th book take place at Grimwald palace..I see more unnecessary scenes added in the 7th movie.Scrimgeour not in the movie at all..not even mentioned…what about when they give Harry, Hermione and Ron the inheritance??? Are they really adding a scene to explain who he freaking is??? Seems like they will be adding a lot more to the 7th to explain things they messed up in the first 6. (Meeting of the muggle minister isn’t as important, but I would have liked to see it closer to the books. For some reason, when they make movies, they think completely changing it will make it better, and it never is…when will they learn…)”Tonks rescuing Harry from the train? Nope, now it’s Luna, looking for Wrackspurts, and removing Harry’s invisibility cloak with her wand. (As A Deathly Hallow, it should be immune to summoning and/or levitation charms.)” I quote this because I totally agree, again, mistakes made that true fans are noticing, and it does nothing but discredit the makers of the movies as being egotistical and arrogant enough to think we would like their version so much better when it leaves so many holes…..Harry and Ginny’s first kiss was pathetic and should have been done the way the book shows since Ginny IS Ron’s sister, and the consent from Ron, being Harry’s best friend, was important. Plus, they left out Harry breaking up with Ginny at the end and that was definitely important. Again, egotistical directors, screen writers, etc…The Gaunt house memories and Voldemort’s reason for the locket becoming a Horcrux are gone….as well as the memories of Helga Hufflepuff’s cup and Voldemort asking Dumbledore for a teaching position….Snape’s “Defense Against the Dark Arts” lessons…ummm hasn’t it been a point in all the other movies that he’s wanted this position, and then they don’t show it when he has it…IDIOTS!!!Harry finds Mundungus Fletcher stealing property from grimwald place, and it’s important for the next movie because he steals the locket. And they must track it down, which leads us back to Umbridge having Moody’s eye on her door and the locket. She also attends Dumbledore’s funeral, which they left out. Which would have included Scrimgeor talking to Harry about him helping the ministry. Which they didn’t show at all in the movie, and which is very, very important!Harry finding out that Snape was the one that betrayed his parents to Voldemort by telling him the prophecy was extremely huge… and they don’t mention it. In fact, Snape’s role is very, very small compared to what his role in the book was. He should have had a little more limelight as trying to help Draco, and Harry and Snape issues and finally Dumbledore and Snape’s plans and issues…nothing….Harry being stupified by Dumbledore in the end to protect him was key as 1)that’s why he was disarmed and 2)come on, Harry just sit by and watch them kill Dumbledore…that wasn’t believable at all….The death eaters fighting those at Hogwarts…not one scene….THEY TOOK OUT DUMBLEDORE’S FUNERAL!!! SERIOUSLY?????HOWEVER!! As far as comparing to the other movies, it is closest to the book, I must say than the others, just wish some KEY things would not have been skipped or changed.

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3. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Jeremiah Martin – July 25, 2025

   4.0 out of 5 stars

   Best of the First 6

   I haven’t read this book yet (I’m halfway through The Goblet of Fire), but I saw the movie in the theater and have watched it a couple of times since. Therefore, I can only comment on the film itself and can’t compare it to the book. Any comparisons to previous films in the series will be based solely on the films themselves, not the books.An important thing to know about this film is that it was directed by David Yates, the director of the final four of the eight Harry Potter films (including the forthcoming second part of The Deathly Hallows). The Order of the Phoenix was the first one he directed, and it continued the trend of increasingly darker and more adult-oriented Potter films. That approach is carried through to this film, which is more somber, moody, and dramatic than any of the previous films. Where the first five films were fanciful and fun, containing plenty of big action set pieces, THBP has a tone of sobriety brought on by the ever-growing threat of Voldemort and his Death Eaters to not only the Dumbledore-defended Hogwarts, but the Muggle and wizarding worlds at large. Without launching into a plot synopsis, I will say that the film strikes a solid balance between teen-movie-styled romantic and school drama, the broader saving-the-world mystery epic surrounding Voldemort, and a cloak-and-dagger subplot involving the Death Eaters, Snape and Draco Malfoy, resulting in the death of a certain important character. As always, there is a special-effects laden climax to this film, but it is hardly the spectacular, extensive knock-down, drag-out wizard battle of The Order of the Phoenix. However, you do get to see Dumbledore use some kick-ass magic at the end of a heart-wrenching scene during which he faces perhaps his greatest challenge ever.If the proverbial s*** was beginning to hit the fan during the previous (TOOTP) film, it was nothing compared to the terror and despair that this film portends for Harry, Ron and Hermoine. As a matter of fact, the excellent, harrowing The Deathly Hallows Part 1 frankly blows this film out of the water in many ways, but THBP remains the best of the first six. By this point, the filmmakers and actors had deeper, more psychologically complex material to work with, not to mention lots of practice working within the logic of J.K. Rowling’s world. Therefore, just about everything in this film is a step up from the previous five, which is saying something when you’re talking about a film series that consistently achieves a surprisingly high level of quality across the board. The performances this time around are particularly remarkable, especially when it comes to Alan Rickman as Snape.This review comes with a minor warning, however. If it has not already been made clear, this film is a different beast from the first five, despite it’s relatively close adherence to the overall structure of those films. Many people were disappointed by the lack of action and complained that “not much happened”. Happily, these criticisms simply miss the point – for what it is, this is an excellent film. It’s not supposed to be an action blockbuster, however it may have been marketed during the summer leading up to its release. So watch this one and then enjoy the big payoff supplied by The Deathly Hallows Part 1, and, presumably, Part 2.

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4. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Underground Reborn – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   My favorite year and a very underated chapter. (Part 6 of 8)

   The magical world finally stands united now that the Dark Lord has made his presence known. Now no one is safe except for those to choose his side. Be it a wizard or muggle Voldemort has his sights set one finally completing his mission, but he must eliminate the chosen one. Harry Potter, is about to enter his sixth year at Hogwarts. This time, besides being closely watched over by the watchful and caring Albus Dumbledore Harry must face a new challenge, being a normal teenaged boy with his thoughts fixated on girls. Friendships and dating is swimming all throughout the corridors at Hogwarts and it’s much more complicated than any Quidditch match. Still, Harry must stay focused because he can sense that there is a plot afoot to penetrate the walls of Hogwarts and turn the haven of wizarding youth into a spawning ground for Death Eaters. The questions that need to be answered are who is plotting it, whom are they after and who is working with them on the inside. There are many secrets revealed about Voldemorts past in this chapter, but most importantly this is the point in time when Harry Potter finally makes the choice on what he must do to finally take down his nemesis.There were many mixed reviews about this film, but as a fan who read this book when it was first released this was my favorite installment (Meaning it surpases ‘Chamber of Secrets’). What grabbed me the most was this book made things a little lighter after two extremely dark novels. It was a much more human story showing that while there is a classic story of good versus evil in an imaginative world these young witches and wizards are still just ordinary teenagers with ordinary problems. Bringing David Yates back to direct this film was the best choice because in ‘Order Of The Phoenix’ he brought realism to the characters and deep development within themselves and with one another. Tackling love and heartbreak is a very hard thing to do in a Sci-Fi fantasy film, but Yates nailed it. The story was also very funny as the book was. The characters show fears in the areas on popularity or just manning up to tell a girl how he felt. Tom Felton who has played Draco was finally given a chance to show his acting potential. While there was minimal dialogue until the very end his body language showed true emotional that really worked the crowd. The fact that a boy who has always boasted about being a proud dark wizard can shed tears when he faces his true self was made so believable by Felton. I sure hope that once these films have concluded he is given a chance for more work and many stellar performances. If you agree with this review then like me this will be a Harry Potter film you will enjoy. We now look forward to the final chapter going Hoarcrux on us to bring us the entire final book page by page. It looks as though they want to do the finale correctly so expect nothing less than a PG-13 rating.

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5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Laura S. – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   Harry Potter loves old people!!

   So happy it’s Here!!!!
6. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Irsia García – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   A un fan de Harry potter esto no puede faltarle

   Es que un verdadero fan de Harry potter sin duda tiene que tener esto en casa y tenerla disponible siempre que quiera super buena calidad
7. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   pebbles – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   Blu Ray is an improvement over DVD. Love the whole set.

   I got this as a replacement for a DVD copy I loaned and didn’t get back. I love the whole series, but this one is my favorite. I got the blu ray version this time and I can tell a subtle difference. I do have to turn the sound up more than is usual, but otherwise I’m happy with it.
8. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   The Grishams – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   Nothing Less Than Five Stars!

   “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” never disappoints! It’s one of those movies that you can’t stop once you start. The story, the characters, the emotions—it all hits differently in this one. The perfect mix of adventure, mystery, and emotion. Absolutely love it!
9. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   wmuxor – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   One of the better HP movies

   One of the better Harry Potter movies. A more complex plot goes a long way in keeping things interesting.
10. 

    Rated 5 out of 5

    Tree – July 25, 2025

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Good movie

    Good movie good times with friends