Good - but not good enough.

Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2005)

I enjoyed this film but felt that it wasn't nearly as good as the others, especially the third one (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). I know that it's difficult to cram as much was in the fourth book into a film of a regular length that average individuals can sit through, but I feel like the entire film was rushed and slapped together choppily. For those with short attention spans, this would be a great film to see - the individual scenes are so short that the viewer is constantly being thrown between them. I didn't like the directing as much as the previous films, and although the visuals were quite interesting, I feel like it didn't make up for the short scenes and choppy editing. It was good, but I felt like it could have been done better and I wouldn't have minded sitting through more for it to be more like the book it's based on.