This is my blog entry after watching the film.

Rating: 6/10 (11 July 2007)

==========TO SOME, THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE MIGHT BE CONSIDERED SPOILER, SO STOP HERE IF YOU ARE STRONGLY AGAINST SPOILERS.=============
If you have read the book, and if you are a HP fan, it's most likely that you would be disappointed by the film. Why? Let's see the bill below.
1. No mention of Regulus. Not even his name can be seen or heard. Nothing. At all. Like he's never existed. Is Regulus an unimportant random character? JKR told the producer whom to put into the movie; does that mean Regulus is just a meaningless digress in the book? Hell, if you don't read the book or if you are not a big fan of HP, then congratulations, you don't feel anything.
2. Although Sirius is *supposedly* one of the main characters in OotP, it turned out that the movie maker either didn't know how to write the screenplay about him or lacked the skill of depicting multiple story lines, that Sirius looked like an EXTRA character. Harry's godfather? That's just a way to call someone. Black's rebellion son? Not shown. One of the Order's central figure? How brief. What the heck.
3. Also an EXTRA is Bellatrix. It looks like an EXTRA kills another EXTRA and it's got nothing to do with the film theme. Till this point, we can induce that the producer, the director or at least the playwrights just don't like the Blacks.
4. No sense of time passing. When it's like still at the beginning of the new term, suddenly Christmas comes.
5. How can the students penetrate into the Ministry so easily? Seems like when they flew to London and went into the phone booth and then they were inside  deep inside.
6. Dumbledore is still some Gandalf!
7. The first three quarters is so draggy and yet it tells so little story. And then the last quarter is too packed, and many necessary details are not shown. Believe me, I almost yawned when I was entertained by the Harry-Cho romance.
8. Parts of the plot are not well linked to one another. How to say a scattered plot?
9. The title is 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'. Yet, where is the Order of the Phoenix? What we can see is 'Harry Potter and Dolores Umbridge' or 'Harry Potter and His Stupidity'.
10. The Weasley boys (Ron, Fred and George) are as adorable as usual. So is Hermione. And so is Neville. But not Harry. In fact I like the Harry in the first 4 movies more than in the books, partly because what I dislike him is his thoughts, which can't be well shown in movies. And in this fifth movie, his negative personalities go to surface. He is angry about friends. He feels self-important. He shouts to friends and Dumbledore. He thinks the whole world is owing him some great debt. He is such a Mary Sue. Well, he IS a Mary Sue in the books, but not much a one in the first four movies; and now, at last, he becomes one in the fifth film.
Now I understand how blissful a non-HP-book-reader is.
Well, the magic scenes are awesome. The music is great. But hey, although they are necessary, they are not the main points. We can watch video games for better scenes and we can listen to OST for the music; why we go to cinema?
I hope the next HP movie would get better. Well, good or bad, when the time comes, we all go to watch it anyway, isn't it?