All Action, No Story... (Contains spoilers to future films and books)

Rating: 6/10 (26 September 2009)

First I wanna state that this is a personal opinion and if you disagree with me then that's OK cause that's your personal opinion.
This is a decent enough movie but it's nowhere near good enough. I'm aware that they have to cut details and stuff out of the books but this movie is basically All Action and No Story.
It starts out fine, I love how they did the whole Quidditch world cup but I am a little mad we didn't get to see the game. That would have been 10 minutes extra tops and it wouldn't have been to much to ask. Also the whole thing with Winky here can be cut as they did since it's not vital to the story but it still adds some. Think the wizards mistreat the elfs in the books? Look what the muggles did in the movies.
After the Choosing of the four Champions in the Triwizard Tournament things start to go downhill. We get thrown into event after event in the tournament and we get very little story in between the events. The Director clearly went for the action in this movie. It has some memorable scenes but to this day I still don't get why they cut Dobby out. Dobby is vital to the 7th book and film since he pretty much saves Harrys life and goes down doing it. This scene in the 7th book was the only time I found myself crying. The other Death scenes in that book went by way to fast and in the heat of the battle (i cried afterwards though). People watching the movies and not reading the books are probably OK with this but I am not and I never will be. Granted the 6th movie was the best one yet, except for the scene at the burrow and the end when the castle should have been in chaos with a massive battle taking place. They do an alright job altogether with this one but it's not good enough for me.