..."BEST movie I've seen in my entire life."

Rating: 8/10 (23 November 2005)

This movie was extremely well put together and few movies have displayed the quality that I have seen in this one. The movie keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat from beginning to end. Especially if you haven't read the book before. The only flaws I found in this movie were that it was too short, leaving out a lot of scenes I would have liked to see from the book, and that Hermione appeared to be on an emotional roller coaster, at times displaying acting brilliance and at times taking it over the top. The other problem I see is that sometimes the director made Harry seem sort of weak. In the dragon scene, Harry had almost no problem taking the egg from the dragon, but in the movie there was a great deal of struggle for him. Although I understand that this is just good action, I would like to see Harry get more credit for his power, he is the one who is Voldemort's nemesis. Especially in the graveyard scene, where they didn't show him resisting the Imperius curse, and when harry was escaping he was taking down Death Eaters in the book as he ran, but in the movie he just fled, and the Death Eaters didn't depict as much fear of Harry Potter as I had interpreted from the book. However, albeit its flaws the strengths overcome them and make this movie the BEST movie I've seen in my entire life. The action was outstanding, the storyline was true, and there were no large alterations from it. I loved the Ule Ball and all of the events from the Triwizard Cup. The raging hormones of the teenagers was hilarious, and contributed to a large portion of the humor from the film, if not all the humor. At this point, I would give the movie and 8.5/10, but what brought the movie to a 10/10 for me was LORD VOLDEMORT. He was amazing, every bit as evil as I had expected and every bit as powerful. He was probably the best part of the movie for me, and the reason that I was so excited to see it. This movie was outstanding, very well directed and an edge of your seat action/comedy/drama/mystery movie, the likes of which I have never seen before.