Best film of the Harry Potter series

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2005)

I'll be honest I wasn't really a fan of the other Harry Potter films in fact I wouldn't recommend 1 or 2.Mike Newell has done something Chris Columbus and Alfonso CuarÃ³n couldn't do,he has successfully created a Harry Potter film.The screenplay is perfect(A candidate if not winner for best adapted screenplay if I ever saw one) It successfully takes an all most 1,000 page book and captures all of it's elements into a 2 1/2 hour movie. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is NOT a children's movie,it very much earns it's PG-13 rating. Parts of it are in fact darker than Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.Michael Gambon has completely filled in Richard Harris' shoes as Dumbledore.For the first time we see the Dark Lord Voldemort as an actual threat to Harry.He is played by the brilliant Ralph Fiennes,and he looks hideous.Fiennes has created another brilliant villain,he was definitely a wise casting choice.Our young stars are maturing and their performances are the best of the series.
Harry Potter is thrilling and it doesn't feel dumbed down into a kid friendly film like the others do. It doesn't want to be a completely adult film just to be one it is one because this is what the story calls for.Newell should be the director for the next,his presence will be missed in the Order of the Phoenix film.