Bad Editing and Transitions

Rating: 5/10 (20 November 2005)

Loved the first 3 HP movies. Enjoyed them 100% This one was just OK. It could have been much better. My biggest problem is technical editing and transitions.
For example, in the beginning, the viewer doesn't even get to see a bit of the Quiditch game, are never more than introduced to Krum, when everything is shift to inside the Weasleys' tent and the Death Eaters start mayhem causing Mr. Weasley to get the family moving out. Next thing you know everything is a burning ruin, with little to no explanation. Then the Dark Mark is displayed in the sky. That's it. Not much more, and pretty much we're in Hogwarts next. Transitions were non-existent. I have no clue how anyone who does not know the story could know what might have been going on...
And the most terrible example of editing came three quarters of the way into the movie when Harry, Ron, Hermoine and Hagrid were walking through the woods (for no particular reason I could discern) and there was a momentary flash on Barty Crouch Sr. laying on the ground. The next thing you know Harry is going up to Dumbledore's study, and no subsequent explanation for that scene is ever uttered for the rest of the movie.
Of course, if you've read the book, you already know about Crouch being in the woods, but the movie had the one fleeting and unsupported scene, with no apparent connection to anything at all.