Harry Potter and The Loss of Direction.

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2006)

It is impossible to make a movie based on a book that will please all fans, but you have to wonder if any of these directors or writers have looked at the books, because how can you direct or write something that you know nothing about? Why can't Rowling write the scripts? Even if attempts are made to make a film that doesn't resemble the book, it has to resemble something. Fans don't like this because the book has been gutted and newcomers haven't the slightest clue what is going on because nothing explanatory has been added. Action and suspense have been enhanced in the last two movies and now it is coherence that is fading away. The movie looks great. The first two challenges were good, the scene where Sirius Black's face appears in a pile of ash was brilliant, and casting Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson as (the snake-like) Lord Voldemort and (the sleazy) Rita Skeeter were acts of genius. The problem is that you could put the greatest director of all time in the seat and if he doesn't have a view on what he is directing and a great script(damn you Steve Kloves) than he will fail. This should have been the greatest Harry Potter film yet, instead it is the weakest since Harry Potter and The Sorceror's Stone. I don't care if J.K Rowling or Daved Yates's version of Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix goes into movie theater's, as long as there is somebody who takes this stellar cast and makes a fine movie out of this pivotal book.