Poorly directed, poorly edited, a huge disappointment.

Rating: Null/10 (16 November 2002)

After the amazing job that was done on the first film of the series, I was expecting more of the same. What I got was a half-assedly put together movie. It felt like Colombus just said "Alright, that take's good enough, let's move on." The acting was terrible. Only Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid and Christian Coulson as Tom Riddle gave good, solid performances. The worst performance of all was Shirley Henderson as Moaning Myrtle. I've seen her do better and this was just awful.
There was far too much dead air between lines and the pacing was much slower than need be. On top of that, a lot of great scenes were cut, and I'm assuming it was for time, but they could have found that time in the dead air spaces. Or taken out the unnecessary part in the flying car scene where Harry almost falls out, which was not in the book.
On top of all this, there wasn't nearly enough music to keep the scenes going. . . There was almost no effort put into this film and it shows. I hope the next director does better.