The actors are good, but the rest...

Rating: 4/10 (7 August 2007)

Today I went to see Harry Potter 5,
Well, what to say,. After you see a good movie you've got to see a bad one? Lucky it's not the actors who do a bad job, but the book is just so big and the script covers only the absolute basics. This leave HP5 just a collection of loosely coherent scenes and gives the actors very little to work with.
It's normal for a movie to omit some thing from the book that's based on, or even use the book just as a general idea. Unfortunately the Harry potter series is omitting so much that even if you haven't read the book you'll notice that you're missing large chunks of the story. That while each Lord of the rings book is generally thicker that the average Harry Potter book and have got a more complex story, the LOTR movies are more coherent than the HP movies. You'll still notice that some parts are missing, but it's coherent. But this Harry Potter movie will be difficult following when you've not read the book.
So is it a marketing trick to make people buy the books and read them when they've not already done that? Or is it just a signal that the script needed rewriting and the movie a better director. I mean, when Peter Jackson is able to film Lord of the rings, why can't they make a decent Harry potter.
Yours sincerely,
Pim van de Velde