Express Train Speed with no substance!

Rating: 4/10 (8 December 2005)

I have put up with the massive material cuts the directors and screen writers have insisted upon in the first three movies because most of the Feel and Emotion of the original stories were still there. This is not the case in Goblet of Fire.
The story, as written, has been hacked up to the point that had I not read the book, I would not have been able to make any sense out of the movie. It moves the viewer at an Express Train pace through a conglomeration of disjointed scenes that have almost no continuity, and nearly no relationship to the story line in the book. Many of the main plot points that needed to be emphasized for a proper flow of the story line in the next two movies were not even touched upon.
This is a story that needed to be made into two movies. Why anyone who had read the book would even consider trying to cram all that material into one movie is beyond me.. The inmates were in charge of the asylum - and the results were chaos and a very poor movie. It's a shame, really, because the story is pure gold - pure gold!