Probably the best Harry Potter movie so far

Rating: 9/10 (5 December 2005)

I've read the first five Harry Potter books and I liked probably the most this 4th one. First I thought that this movie can't be good, because the book is so long and a guy like Mike Newell was supposed to direct it. I personally hadn't any objections against him, but I was prepared to the worst after having read these forums.
Now, when I have seen the movie, I can say that this one is definitely the best Harry Potter movie. Steven Kloves did a great job again in screenplay, Mike Newell succeeded to make probably the best direction of Harry Potter movies so far (I hope you get the point) and the main actors (Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint as Ron, Emma Watson as Hermione, Bonnie Wright as Ginny and Matthew Lewis as Neville) have become pretty talented actors. Of course the interest of the plot affects to my opinion about this film also.
Newell had collected the movie very wisely. All the most important scenes had been included to the movie and they had been made in more entertaining and interesting way than in the early Potter movies. The side actors had been chosen very well also. Katie Leung as Cho is as beautiful as I had imagined, and Stanislav Ianevski and Robert Pattinson are almost made to act Victor Krum and Cedric Diggory. Now I'm just waiting for the DVD release with a massive collection of deleted scenes and some other documentaries.
So even though you didn't like the early Potter movies very much but you liked the books you should see this movie. I think it's pity that Mike Newell won't direct the following Harry Potter movies, but I hope that David Yates would make The Order of the Phoenix as good as this became or even better.