Don't see this movie if you haven't read the book

Rating: 3/10 (18 November 2005)

This movie is simply a bastardization of the book. There's no more to it than that. Just about every scene that had me riveted to the pages in the novel drowned in cheesy dialog, bad acting, and/or extreme modification. If you are planning on seeing this movie, at least spare yourself the ruination of an amazing experience and read the book first. Even if you hate reading, you'll like this book. Besides, if you haven't read the book you won't have a clue as to what the hell is going on in the story anyway because the movie jumps around from scene to scene so confusingly.
Specifically, since my review is not long enough, the scenes of the tournament underwent heavy and brutal alteration. The emotions of the characters were portrayed pathetically, and not one of the personalities and feelings in the book survived to make the movie. Terrible script writing...
If you are even remotely a harry potter fan, do yourself justice and skip this movie until you have tackled the book. If you do this, then you'll simply be sitting in the audience shaking your head at how torn apart this story has become.