Unlimited potential is met with limited results

Rating: 5/10 (10 July 2007)

First off this movie has met every requirement for a summer blockbuster. The movie has bad acting, which can only be blamed on the director because they cast is a very talented one containing several Oscar winners, cheesy dialogue, a poorly written story that leaves even non Harry Potter readers asking why and what happened. The last thing is the special effect which could have been some of the best ever. But they weren't . With companies like ILM revolutionizing the special effects industry, as seen with Transformers, we must ask ourselves what did they do to Harry Potter.
Key elements were left out of the screenplay which establishes the plot is the future books and movies alike. The inconsistencies in the movie can only be blamed on a hurried and poorly written screenplay. The low points cause an attention laps and the high points are like an answer to our prayers, but these few high points do not make up for the rest of the movie.
Several key action sequences from the book were left out because of length restrictions and caused the seriousness of the book to be lost in translation or left on the editing room floor. With more coherent senses involving the magic of Harry Potter a fun and entertaining movie can be created. The confrontations between characters in the books created an atmosphere that had the public wanting more but the movie does not provide for the need of the viewers, but for the wallets of some high corporate executive.
The climax is reached with mixed reviews on how the movie could have been better up to this point if a different director would have been used, and it serves as a small amount of redemption for the horrors that has already committed. Some of the final battle effects are in the realm of super cheesy and inadequate for a scene of such anticipation. The length is something else that must be brought into question. It is just long enough to get the viewers attention but not enough to cause the viewer to see the magic the Chris Columbus and Alfonso Cuaron brought to the series.
In short the magic and that made the Harry Potter books and the movie series fun and entertaining is gone. The movie was not dark enough to truly relate to the book and to show the progression that Harry needs to go through to have a climatic duel with the dark lord in the final movie Deathly Hallows. If I was Ms. Rowling I would be ashamed of what someone turned her amazing book into only to make a quick buck. The bottom line is that this movie can and will only be surpassed by Half Blood Prince as a magic less failure if a new director and new imagination is not found.
I do not believe I have included any spoilers in my comment and if I have I am sorry.