Please don't waste your time! **** SPOILER WARNING!! ****

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2007)

Well, I just returned from seeing it and I must confess only two words come to mind: astoundingly bad. I mean, really, how can you spend all that time, effort and money only to produce something like this? I'm sad to say this movie made me feel absolutely NOTHING. It is a soulless, emotionless empty shell. For me, nothing demonstrates this film's emptiness better than the post dementor attack scene with Mrs. Figg. The actor was obviously directed to behave as if nothing unusual has happened as opposed to the wild terror the character shows in the book.
Sure, this isn't a big deal on its own but the scene is then quickly followed by a fly-by of all the major London muggle landmarks with absolutely no regard for magical secrecy. Surly the director is saying to us 'who cares about the book' very early on, isn't he? It would have taken, what, 10 seconds to do a concealing charm before they took off? Oh well. I already knew about the ridiculous changes made to the Occlumancy (no pensieve) and Snape's Worst Memory (no underpants or Lily) so I was expecting that disappointment. However I had no idea Snape's screen time would be so limited. To me this backs up my theory on how JKR will make Snape both evil and a non-entity in DH.
And I believe Luna's last lines foreshadow Sirius coming back in DH which will be yet another poor JKR decision. All in all, I really can't think of one positive thing to say about this film. Except for how nice the music was. As I was apologizing to the two friends I dragged to see this mess, we stayed through the closing credits due to the wonderful end title score.