Simly a puppet show!

Rating: 1/10 (22 July 2007)

What was expected to blow me away, like the 3rd and 4th films did, turned out to be the worst movie experience I've had since the passion of the Christ. And let me make what I think absolutely clear: It is NOT OK that they've altered so much from the book. They could have stuck with the book without necessarily facing too much screen time. There was much cut out from Goblet Of Fire but it didn't prevent it from bringing as much magic to the screen as humanly possible.
To be more specific, the film was a complete mess, a sequence of things taken from the book, pointlessly altered and badly organized on film. It seemed that they had focused on completely the wrong things. It was as if Yates had heard the story from someone, who heard it from his barber, who heard it from the postman, who heard from someone else, who heard someone talking about it...
If I hadn't read the book, I would have no idea what this movie is about. Is it about some boy with a magic stick who's getting in trouble at school all the time and some maniac with his gang trying to kill him and his schoolmates, or is it about a boy wizard named Harry Potter, who's got a mysterious scar on his forehead, a mystical bond with his nemesis since a year of age - Lord Voldemort, the darkest wizard the magical community has ever known? What about The Prophecy? What about Dumbledore and his concern and care? What about The Order? Where's the danger? Where's the emotion? Where's the MAGIC? And bring John Williams back! Or at least Patrick Doyle.
P.S. I trash this movie completely and I don't regret doing so, because what they've done with the book and the story and the world of Harry Potter is unforgivable. And the worst thing is that they've chosen the same David Yates to direct the next two films (or one, I'm not sure). I hope they reconsider before it's too late.