Poor direction and editing spoil #5

Rating: 4/10 (13 July 2007)

I'm sorry to report Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie didn't live up to my expectations largely due to the direction and the editing. It was too clipped and jumped from here to there without sufficient connection. Dolores Umbridge character was perfectly done as was Luna Lovegood, but again the editing was severe. If I hadn't read the book it would have made no sense to me at all. As it is it's a very poor rendition of a really good book. The director and editor should be ashamed of themselves. There were several scenes in the movie that I was looking forward to seeing, but they were very poorly directed and staged. I guess four out of five ain't bad, but in my opinion they should retract this issue and edit it again.