Mediocre at Best

Rating: 1/10 (22 May 2009)

Overall, I thought this was definitely the worst of series so far. Everything in it just seemed so crammed and rushed for time. Nothing in the movie really seemed to capture many of the exciting or interesting parts of the book. Things like the Qudditch match were just horribly short, and not even appealing to watch. As for the maze, many of the interesting tasks from the book were just thrown aside. If things like this are going to be included, I would think that it would at least be done right. I would have definitely sat through an extra half hour or more to see these things done well. The acting didn't impress me much either, but what added to painfulness of watching the movie the most was Dumbledore, whose acting I thought was just terrible at points in the film (mainly near the end). Judging by the quality of the Order of the Phoenix, I can tell that the movies will get better, and hopefully no more books will be this badly portrayed again.