Too much on the platter to digest

Rating: 4/10 (27 November 2005)

Direction of the movie is quite pathetic. It looks as if we are watching a compilation of trailers. The focus of the movie is completely missing. The sets in the movie were spectacular and the build up to the each of the three tasks was alright but the tasks themselves looked pretty ordinary. It seems that they had big plans for each of the tasks but then had to cut them short because either of the money constraint or time constraint. One of major disappointment for me was the entry of Voldemort. One would expect that such a great moment in the story should have been made to stand out and have an impact on the audience but for me it looked ordinary just as any other scene in the movie, there wasn't enough thrill in that scene. At the end of movie, i was thinking of what have i seen in last two and half hours. I can just sum it up in 4-5 sentences. I have already read the book so i knew what is happening, but i doubt if somebody who hasn't read this book would have had any clue of what's happening in the movie. It looks as if they have tried to put in little too much within a short span of time. Underwater task is the only one which has done justice to the book. The acting of the child actors has improved considerably. But the charismatic Dumbledore was missing. He looked vulnerable. He should have looked calm and composed as he is always. I would like to ask the director to take an inspiration from "Lord of the Rings" and make the movie with the same sense of grandeur without compromising on time and money.