*le sigh*

Rating: 6/10 (17 July 2007)

Alright I'm not going to rant and rave as I feel I should, nor will I take the time to point out all the stuff this film left-out/ruined.
I simply want to say that I am incredibly saddened by this film. Yes, I gave it 6 stars but that's simply for the fact that the smallest tiniest bits they did manage not to completely screw up were excellent. (and the fact that Alan Rickman as Snape and Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy were SUPERB in this film) All I have to say is I want Alfonoso Cuaron and Steve Kloves back. This Yates guy and the idiot screenwriter they had on OotP need to never ever touch the HP series again.
Unfortunately they are doing the next film (my favourite book) so I can only imagine how horribly awful that will be. I'm sure they'll reduce Rickman/Snape's screen time to about 12minutes.
oh and btw: do NOT see this film in IMAX 3D for your first showing. It's already insanely too fast to comprehend normally, let alone jumping out at you on an enormous screen.
to summarize-- this film was too fast, edited BADLY (I mean, baddddddly, maybe 60% of the book shows up in the film), and too dark (and by that I mean actually too dark, lighting wise, you could hardly see what was going on half the time) otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed it. *shrug* sorry, pointless review, I know.