Exciting, Fun, Doesn't get bogged down

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2005)

I couldn't have been happier with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The director's decision to cut out the subplots and focus on the Tri-Wizard Tournament, the Ball, and the shocking ending was nothing short of brilliant. Because the book is widely accepted as the best so far of the Harry Potter books largely because of it's complexity, the temptation would be to make a movie that attempts to encompass each and every facet of book, resulting in an unfocused, bogged down, uninteresting movie. The director's decision to simply bypass potentially tedious scenes, such as the Quidich game at the beginning of the movie, helped make this movie's two-and-a-half hours fly by as quickly as the book's 734 pages did the first time I read it. Kudos to this director for finding a great movie in a great book.