Made for Fanatics

Rating: 6/10 (5 November 2006)

Even a semi-thin novel of this size possesses a narrative far too complicated to be worked into a film of 90 minutes. If you've not read the book, do so before viewing this, but then wait about six months for the mental images to fade.
Good work from everyone (especially the cinematography and art departments), but the story/direction is about moments rather than story. Shame, that
Tom Riddle provides a rather one-noted delivery of the diary's writer. Certainly this is a lead-up to the evil one himself, but the more youthful the more complicated or more self-doubts going - or one would hope. Character complications come later, but we need to have things left open for the guy and we don't get them here.