Sensational. Best one so far - easily !

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2007)

I really don't understand some of these terrible comments ! Order of The Phoenix is EASILY the best Harry Potter film so far with real quality in every area. It was fast moving, funny, exciting, touching and quite frankly had far and away the best acting from the younger cast that has been seen up to now. The choices made by the Director of what to cut from the very long book, were smart and didn't destroy the story (for me) one bit. It flowed very well and the only thing it asked of the audience was that they had a little bit of knowledge of what had happened in the previous movies and that they just soak up the story as presented on the screen. David Yate's direction of the actors was superb, Nicholas Hooper's music wonderful, Tim Burke's special effects were truly spectacular and what I've read about Yates using a dance choreographer to devise the wand combat scenes was an inspired idea, as Paul Harris created exciting, artistic and graceful choreography for the wand duelling scenes. Those scenes were so thrilling that they will be one of the highlights of the entire series of Harry Potter films when they are all done and dusted. The kiss was handled brilliantly - given the massive age range of the audience it couldn't have been exploited any more and both actors pitched the scene perfectly. For me, David Yates has taken something by the scruff of the neck and made it totally thrilling. I kept falling asleep in the second film and was also bored by the fourth. The other films already seem dated to me, but the style of this will stand the test of time much more successfully. Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix is a really great film for Potter fans and Potter newbies alike.