acceptable but not Brilliant

Rating: 6/10 (11 July 2007)

Given only two hours they managed to fit most of the important parts into the movie, character development was a letdown the movie lacked the meat of the book concentrationg too much on umbridge and less on the Order, Tonks was barley there the fight in ministry mad DA look weak and barley able to hold their own, where the book actually had some good wizard dueling not just a lot of flying smoke and the da scrambling for their lives. Neville got nothing but a look from Beletrix. Umbrige is easy to hate and a one book character, there should have been more effort on main characters, Luna was played wonderfully to character but what about Cho betraying the DA and no relationship at all between tonks and Sirius i guess in the next movie shell cry a lot but anyone who has not read the book will not have a clue why. all and all Read the Book watch the movie to get a little visual help, but don't be surprised if the next 2 movies aren't bare of important details as the books get longer and longer