Poor compared to the Goblet of Fire film, but still pretty good.

Rating: 7/10 (14 July 2007)

I have not been a huge fan of any of the Potter films except for the fourth, and this wasn't as good. This Potter entry deals with a new professor of the dark arts, Mrs. Umbridge coming on, and she takes over the school pretty fast becoming headmaster. Meanwhile Harry, Ron and Hermoine get an army of kids together to fight Voldemort who has returned. Like most Potter films, this doesn't explain itself enough, so quite often if you haven't read the books, this will have you scratching your head. The acting, as always, was very good and all the kids and old British actors did a great job. One good thing that this movie has is it almost has a small time feel. Though there are many scenes with special effects, it is nowhere near as special effect heavy as the the last four, and it also has smaller sets and less characters. Plus, this is a long book, and the movie runs at 128 minutes without credits making it the shortest of the movies. It was good, but it could've been better.
My rating: *** out of ****. 128 mins. PG-13 for violence.