Better read the book first...

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2005)

I am a little disappointed by this installation of the Harry Potter series. I have not read any of the Harry Potter books, but I completely enjoyed the first three movies. With "Goblet of Fire", I found myself confused, especially towards the end of the movie, because I did not know the significance of everything that was going on. I have had to seek out my nephew who knows all the books by heart to explain why something happened. I still enjoyed the movie, and I liked the darker tone of the film compared to the other 3 movies. I will have to either read the book or wait for the next movie to fill in some of the gaps. Maybe the fact that the book had a lot of subplots that needed to be cut out to fit into one movie took away from the cohesiveness of the film. So as a non-reader of the books (that is my loss), I give the movie a lower score.