A Very Good HP Film

Rating: 7/10 (9 January 2012)

The first three HP films have all lived up to my expectations and I was hoping this would too. Yes, it was a success in my opinion, yet it can't be the best of the four. Mike Newell did a decent job with this film.
The novel was one of the better JK Rowling books in my opinion, and I was hoping this would too. This film succeeds in many ways. The acting is great, the effects and the story moves along well. All the actors are great...(wait, I spoke a little too soon) all but Michael Gambon are great. My beliefs are that Michael Gambon's Dumbledore wrecked the legendary character. This actor had to shout at students, especially Harry and at one point attacked him. In the novel, Dumbledore calmly asks Harry if he put his name in the Goblet of Fire, yet this Dumbledore pushes him to a trophy cabinet and grabs him. REALLY!!!???! Is that the Dumbledore we knew. I don't think so. Many would later argue that Richard Harris (who passed away) would never be able to act the scene where duelling Voldemort in No.5, but he could. Gambon's Dumbledore was stressed too much, yet Dumbledore in the book was calm.
Even though Gambon's Dumbledore (in this film) totally wrecked our beloved character, this film was still well done. One more thing is that the maze sequence was disappointing as it only contained the maze moving around. In the book, dementors and boggarts all pop out and things were more tense. Yet all three of the tasks were done very well, and mostly all was well.