Normal Harry Potter experience

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2007)

I'm giving it a 7 because of the fact that the only original thing they did was improve the special effects. Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, well as good as you could expect from someone trying to turn a book into a movie, never quite comes out right. Once again the acting of the cast is sub par, quite appalling for the now 17+ actor Daniel Raddcliffe, his acting is choppy, sometimes even over dramatic, and that's saying much for the limited actor that he is. Actors Evanna Lynch(Luna Lovegood) Mark Williams(Mr. Weasly) and a few of the others, including Emma Watson (Hermione) are the only ones that really play a convincing character. Not to mention the fact that Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) is an over dramatic actor, the Goblet of Fire movie can completely complement this statement, where he shrieks at Harry Potter when his name comes out of the Goblet. Often times he either over-reacts or under-reacts. They couldn't have chosen a worse replacement for the original Dumbledore. Besides the obvious flaws, one being that Harry Potters scar changes sides during the duration of the film, switching from the right to the left side. It's what I've become to expect from the Harry Potter movies, they've switched directors more often than one changes a light bulb, every new movie has a new director, and the only director I've seen that can hold par with the books is Chris Columbus. He is by far the best director the movies have seen, keeping in context with the books as close as one could, unlike the director in the third movie, it seems that all of the directors try to "make it their own" they like to take things that hold nothing in common with the books and try to incorporate them into the movies, you could take something completely irrelevant and they would try to use it with the movies. The director of The Prisoner of Azakaban tried to over-do a lot of the aspects of the movie, he let them walk around school with their uniforms untucked, when they have a dress code for a reason. I personally have never had a dress code when I was in school, but if you go to a boarding school where they make you wear a uniform you get in trouble for not wearing it, or if it's disheveled you have to fix it. One of the major problems I had with the Order of The Pheonix is the way they went about the film, they made it look like news paper clippings in between scenes. Completely uncalled for, seeing as you're not exactly reading a newspaper, why incorporate a newspaper into every other scene, or in fact when trying to speed up time. It doesn't make sense does it? The fight scenes are well done, I'll give them that much. But overall, I wouldn't go see it in the theaters again. Nothing too spectacular from this movie, just sub par acting on top of a sub par screen write. My advice is to wait for the DVD.