"Half-Blood Prince" was a stark contrast to the prior movies that had action added to soup things up a bit. This was slow-paced to the point that even *I* was getting bored with it (and I am a hard-core Potter fan). I think the need to connect with the hormonal youth that have migrated to the "Twilight" movies short-changed this movie's chance to really show some character development, especially in those characters who have gone the way of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The entire plot line of discovering who is in fact the mysterious "Half-Blood Prince" is reduced to a very anticlimactic line in the film: "I...am the Half-Blood Prince."