Don't set your hopes too high

Rating: 6/10 (12 July 2007)

Let me preface this by saying that I've never read any of the books.
I thought that this film lacked a storyline, spent far too much time on a new character, and scratched the surface on a main character's past (but didn't go deep enough). I also thought that the media over-hyped the movie's 'darkness.' A final criticism is that the charades played near the start of the film could have been done much quicker and set up the storyline just the same. The biggest positive is that you learn a little about one of the main characters and by the end of the film you feel like Harry's character has gone through some progression. It wasn't a bad movie, but walking out of the theater I don't feel like the story had advanced much from the point where the 'Goblet of Fire' movie left off.