A mature turn on Harry Potter (HP) movies

Rating: 9/10 (27 July 2007)

Admittedly; after HP 4, I was scared that there wouldn't have been any other movies with that scale of magnitude. Brilliant dialogs, awesome special effects, and everything that a major fantasy movie should have. Now things are changed. You can definitely forget the whole ballet of the fourth movie, and enter into the real Harry Potter World: a world of solitude,pain and doubt. This movie has a lot of ties with the third installment of the series; the same darkness, the same imminent sense of tragedy; most ultimately, the same sense of doom. Without revealing too much of the plot, we can definitely say that we begin to understand Harry's personality for what it is for real: traumatized.
The brilliant Gothic photography, the soundtrack, magniloquent as always, the whole rhythm of the movie, are definitely involving. The actors, excepts from the usual old glories like Gary Oldman & co.(from which I didn't expect any less than the usual perfection-as it has been), seem to grow up talented. Every performance on a movie is better than the previous one, and I'm just looking forward to the next movie, that should be out in late 2008.
One piece of advice: I've been one of the many to doubt about David Yates' capability; mostly, because I'm not from UK, and as such I didn't know his previous works. Doesn't matter what the guy did before, with this movie he definitely put his name into the history of cinema. This Harry Potter Saga is growing up as one of the most incredible serial of adventure, and being remembered for the (at least in my opinion) best HP movie so far is DEFINITELY something.