Just not good enough

Rating: 5/10 (29 November 2005)

Disappointing, that is the first word that come to my mind when I think of this movie...
After watching the "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" I got a feeling of a movie having to much to tell in to little time, leaving no time to for the actors to act or me getting to know them.
In the case of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", this happens to be even more evident. The movie rushes forward from first till last, jumping between conversations and scenes in a tempo making it all seem somewhat chaotic and confusing. Also loads of new characters are dragged into the plot, without getting a proper introduction. But in my opinion the biggest problem in this movie, is the extremely bad acting. All of the 3 maincharacters (Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson), are some of the worst actors I have ever seen. I can not stop to think of Mark Hamill from Start Wars. Another bad actor in a big movie. I do not feel with the characters. I do not know why they do what they do. I do not know what they think. Everything seems very superficial and the plot in this movie is also not as good as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", which, without a doubt, is the best Harry Potter movie. The reason Why we do not get to know the characters, may not only be because of bad acting, maybe the screenplay simply leaves no room for getting to know them, making it bad as well. I can't help to think, if not only the first book actually should have hit the screen? And what happened to Dumbledore??? I know the actor was replaced, but should that change his personality?? Last I must admit, that I have not yet read the books, but I will for sure.