Poor omnium-gatherum of bad directing-work

Rating: 2/10 (27 August 2006)

No how did I long for this movie! I found the third one brilliant, with just the right changes to the story and just the right changes to the previous films. Hogwarts looked natural, not Disneyish like in the first 2 films, the magic (aka 'the tricks') was there to emphasize on the story, not the claptrap itself and it was just the right length for the movie (And I even wanted to have that Marauder's Map!)!
This film is a mess! The actors where great, they are always getting better but have always less and less to to, because there are so many of them! Where is the hiss of Snape? Where is the wonderful stiff accent of MacGonagall? Where is... yes, where is the Dursley's? They cramped this film together like an accordion! They should have made two movies out of it. Every scene looked out of place, just a bunch of happenings sewn together by nothing, no red string, no connection!
The tricks were wonderful, the ship was done well, Madam Maxime was looking great, the Quidditch Wolrd Cup too - but all was too tight, too rushed. Everything was shown so quick, that it was not worth the effort. And the chemistry between Harry, Ron and Hermione was all wrong too. Look at the ball. She disappeared up the stairs an nothing happened?!?! oh, please!! Above that, Dumbledore acted like a choleric lunatic! he was not the above-all-father-figure with the smell of power and Mystery around him. He was no Yoda, he was Anakin Skywalker, a over-reacting schoolboy!
This movie could have been good, if it was made into two full-length features with more emphasize on every one scene, connected with something like the womping willow shuffling it's treetop.
Actors: 5-8 stars (Please let there be more time on every single character) Dumbledore: 0 stars (I know, brilliant Richard Harris is death, but please give, also-brilliant Michael Gambon some other role, as he totally misses the character) directing: 1 star (for the decision to cramp 734 pages into one movie and to disconnect the remaining scenes) script: 3 stars (As Steven Kloves was not able to catch the chemistry between the 3 main characters and to screw up the new cramped connection between scenes AND to make all this little mistakes in every single one scene I forgot because i shoved this movie out of my brain)
This rubbish put together makes no more than 2 stars, as I was totally confused about the story and some basic mistakes they made with the cemetery-scene, the hacked-together movie, bad Dumbledore and ruining the wonderful feeling I had with reading all books over and over and the feeling which had been installed with film 3...
Shame!