A decent beginning for a spectacular ending

Rating: 6/10 (20 November 2010)

I just came from this movie and thought to myself, "I wonder why they didn't take this approach in Goblet of Fire?" personally we ALL know this is for a money-making aspect and has nothing to do with, "not being able to tell the story in one movie." If they actually cared about telling the story correctly they would have made G.O.F into 2 movies.
The movie was rushed, and it seemed that they literally took the best parts from each of the beginning chapters and threw them together. Many lines from the movie were taken from the book word for word, kind of a stretch for the other movies, when they tried to stress the point that it is a movie and not a book.
I personally thought the casting or at least the makeup part of the many of the characters were done poorly as well. The Minister of Magic looked nothing liked the description in the book. Supposedly he was a built rugged looking man with a lion manned hair,but they made him a tall scrawny guy who needed a meal or two. Mundungus Fletcher, Fenrir Greyback is a werewolf,not a reject from the sex-pistols. Bill Weasley is stated as tall ruggedly handsome and athletic, not thin skinny emo rocker.
I love the ideal of filming in the "real world" however the sets left something to be desired. they seemed very small, crowded and not realistic to be taken as a "real world" Gordics Hollow looked like a sound stage, as well did the Lovegoods and Malfoy manor. They could have at least rented a nice mansion in Louisiana for Malfoy Manor.
I have to give the movie a 6 out of 10. I have to be more critical of this due to the fact that they should have all of the aspects down by now after all these movies. I will say as far as all the movies in the series goes, this one would be in the top 3...so far...not as good as Order of the Phoenix or Sorcerers Stone but better than Goblet of Fire, depending on how it ends.