Thoughts on the Goblet of Fire Movie

Rating: 6/10 (19 November 2005)

The direction was decent, they spent some dough on the special FX you can see as the FX are quite well done.Gets an 8
Screenplay is good, the angles are well played.Gets an 8
The overall quality of acting, was decent. But by the standards of what a harry potter movie, and that said one with a large budget, the acting on whole was below standard. Emma Watson did a good job, above average actually. Daniel Radcliffe was terrible. All he showed was nervousness and sweatiness throughout the movie, almost never changing. His laughter was visibly faked. IMO they should have chosen better,this guy cant act.Ron Weasly was decent, and the rest were decent as well. However,you would expect much better of a movie based on a book of such calibre.4/10 for the acting.
The editing was terrible.Avid Harry Potter book readers would curse when they saw the material that was cut out.The Quidditch world cup was reduced to a 5 minute scene, with no Quidditch shown at ALL, and the death eater/dark mark scene was cut very short and small important information such as Crouch's house elf were left out.
The commencing of the school was reduced to almost 15 seconds, with 2 other competing schools entering what looked like the first day of school. Very rushed beginning. Editing 4/10
Costumes. On the whole, i was impressed with the costumes. Hagrid, Madam Maxime, filch, harry,the Weasley brothers, all wore suitable and interesting attire. Dumbledore however, did not fit his "grand" description from the books. HE looked shabbily dressed. The death eater masks were pitiable. They looked evil creatures right out of an infant's book. The hats were atrocious. Costumes - 7/10
Voldemort - For lack of any possible knowledge/idea on how else he could have been shown, ill give Voldemorte's costume/face a 9/10. He did look evil in certain scenes. However, his nostrils looked more comic than scary. Voldemort-8/10
Voldemorte's acting and self-carriage was unfitting,however. Certain scenes he was seen to, after for example mending Wormtails hand, to move back and look at worm tail almost looking for Wormtail's word on whether it was OK or not or if he should change it. His air was unsuitable for a dark lord. He was not confident and grand/dark enough.
Madeye moody's eye was atrocious. It looked like the plastic eye stuck onto my teddy's face. A red or green eye that was fixated within the eye socket would have made a tremendous difference.
Decent movie for a medium budget movie,but rather disappointing since it was high budget, wont watch it again any time soon
6/10