Special effects were awesome, storyline was mediocre...

Rating: 5/10 (3 January 2006)

I guess you could say that it did fairly better than the last three movies made, especially the Prisoner of Azkaban (that movie was seriously disaster). I mean, the action was great and all, but the movie skipped out on some really important parts. If I had watched it without reading the books first, maybe I would thought that it was awesome, but I did and I pretty disappointed. The movie was great with the visualizations of the book. It just made everything a bit clearer in my head about how the scenes would like. The underwater part was especially spectacular. The acting was pretty mediocre, I mean seriously! Couldn't they have made the scene where Voldemort yells Avada Kedavra at Cedric and he dies, a bit more dramatic? The moment the spell hit him, he just fell. He could have at least said something, like yell at least before the spell. But he didn't. They totally skipped out the part about Harry giving Fred and George the thousand Galleons! I don't even think they even mentioned the thousand Galleons. Sure, I know the book was more than 700 pages and of course, the director couldn't possibly fit all that in a 2 and a half hour movie but the joke shop and the inferences about the money continues throughout the 6th book. If you just introduced that in the next movie, people are sure gonna like "Huh?". Another thing, the Quidditch World Cup lasted like about 15 minutes of the film! That was a whole entire chapter of Harry Potter. Where was Winky in all of this?! She played a pretty big part in it and yet they deleted her from the whole entire movie! What is up with that? This was what really threw me off. And Malfoy, they only gave him almost 2 scenes and that was it! Also with Cho Chang! She is supposed Harry's love interest and plays a major major part in the books. But they only gave her 3 lines and that was it. Can you believe it? Three lines. Three measly lines. That was just wrong justice. Overall, wasn't as good.