If you read the book, you'll be highly disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (12 December 2005)

Hard to say whether this flick deserves a 4 or higher. But for a book with 750+ pages, we should've seen this a mile away that it was going to be a piece-meal of a film. Too bad they ditched the idea of making an extended version. The actual story would actually benefit from the added footage. As it is now, it skips along grabbing only the more important aspects of the Tri-wizard Tournament, making those that read the book, gaping in utter disgust as to how they butchered the story. I'm sure if they added say 20-30 minutes more, it would probably have flowed so smooth that you wouldn't have noticed that it was three hours long.
As for the acting, four films later and it still seems that the kids are trying too hard to actually "act" than act as the kids they are supposed to be. Dialog is forced and Daniel just seems to try too hard or just doesn't get it.
Out of the four movies, I'd say this is the worst of the book translations. Which means the rest of the series, knowing full well that they're tipping the 750-800+ pages we've come to love, will probably be just as spliced as this one is.
Too bad. The book rocked. The movieis typical Hollywood.