Overall good, but way too fast

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2005)

First of all, i would like to point out that i would have enjoyed this movie so much more if i had gone to see it with someone who would've liked it too. My friend dislikes everything basically, and so she hated Harry Potter too. I have to say thank you to her though, for actually trying to last through the movie. But i don't believe i enjoyed it to the full extent because a movie is hard to enjoy when the person sitting next to you is bored. I'll be glad to see it again soon and enjoy it so much more.
Anywho, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the longest of all Harry Potter books, and i can't imagine how difficult it would be to try and cut down 636 pages into a mere 3 hour and 16 minute movie.
Personally, i found the movie choppy and way too fast paced, but i know that this happened because they were trying to fit in all significant facts into the limited time period. Scenes lasted like four minutes at the most. And especially scenes such as the Quidditch cup scene would have been so much more intense and terrifying if they were longer.
With Prisoner of Azkaban, the movie was able to pace itself steadily and slowly. This movie was just bang bang bang. I couldn't feel much for characters or the things that were happening to them because everything was so short-cut. Especially with characters like Cedric, Cho and Krum. Altogether they got at the max eight minutes of screen time.
In my opinion, i wouldn't have minded if this movie went on longer. Because then the film would actually be intense and emotional. Watching this movie was like reading a fact sheet. It was just like "Harry wakes up" "Harry gets hurt" "Harry gets out of bed". There was just no space for anything too genuinely emotional. Like when Wormtail cuts off his hand, there are no screams, nothing. He just cuts it off, and walks straight over to Harry as if nothing happened. I actually recall people in the cinema not even knowing that Wormtail's hand had been cut off.
Generally it's a good movie, but it just doesn't have heart. You can't feel much for any of the new characters because you don't really get to know them. And Cedric comes out really arrogant despite the fact that he's meant to be kind. I never liked the concept of splitting the film into two different ones. I think the movie would've been fantastic if it even got like an hours more screen time. And people such as house-elves and the Dursleys should have not been cut out.