OK but not as great as the hype

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2005)

I have to say i was a little disappointed when i saw the film as critics and friends had been saying how well it kept to the book and managed to cut down the story to the essentials. I found that by cutting out all of those elements the film was reduced to a piece that felt forced along at too fast a pace not being able to linger on any important part of the story for fear of over-running its alloted time. By cutting out so much of the book the film lost some of the spirit that has made the books such a refreshing, ingenious and popular series. The fact that the actor they found to play Harry has about as much talent and charisma as a block of wood also doesn't help the film either. The only thing i can say for it is that it had fantastic visual effects and very appealing 'eye-candy' in the forms of Pattinson and Ianevski and that the closing 15 minutes did a little to redeem an otherwise unsatisfactory movie.