Big Fan + Big Book + Big Let Down = Bad Movie

Rating: 2/10 (13 July 2007)

OK so I am a huge fans of all the Harry Potter books, but then again i am not super obsessed with everything Harry Potter (no Quiditch Sheets on my bed).
Anyway I never really liked most of the HP movies I enjoyed them for sure but they were not "fantastic films" just adaptations of the most popular book series in history (no offense lotr fans). And I came to expect a little disappointment from these films.
I had high hopes for this film, the crown jewel if you will of a movie series with sub par films. I went in with the hopes of seeing great special effects, great experienced actors such as Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, and Gary Oldman in well cast parts. And above all a Harry Potter movie that finally lives up to the book.
I must say I was extremely disappointed, there was so much content cut that if you never read the books you probably never would have followed any of the plot. Also besides Radcliff ever other character has very limited screen time, instead of growing character development and waiting for the audience to laugh at a joke, we were zipped off again to another scene. To me it didn't feel like a movie or a HP book it felt like a mess of editing scenes from different parts of the book together, there was no flow, no life, just Danielle Radcliffe as Harry Potter for 2 hours and 18 minutes.