Wow, terrible and extremely boring!

Rating: 4/10 (16 July 2007)

This was easily the worst of all the Harry Potter movies. I don't know if I should blame the embarrassingly slow screenplay, or the terrible direction. The only reason it even got a four is because the film looked good and the acting (Daniel Radcliffe excluded, he was terrible)was because just about all the other actors were good. I have never read a Harry Potter book and never will, but this either was adapted poorly or it really is the weakest of the books because it made the worst film by far. Right now this has an 8.1 rating here, and I believe it is because of all the fan-boys that give it a 10 don't really base the film on it's ACTUAL merits. I would not recommend this film to anyone less than 13 years old. I wouldn't even recommend this to people that are fans of the book because it can't be any worse than this. I always feel that movies, yes even sequels should have some sort of conclusion to them. There is absolutely no sort of conclusion to this film at all; it is 2 hours and 18 minutes of setting the viewers up for the inevitable fight between Harry and the Bad guy! That's it and that's all? If you were to take out all of the special effects, there would have been nothing to take out of this film. The director David Yates, I have never heard of and hope that I never do again. It amazes me that they would trust a multi-billion dollar enterprise with a basic unknown. I know it did really well Box office wise, but that is just because of the Harry Potter name alone. If this was the first of the Harry Potter films, we would have never seen another one. If you do see this film, just watch the last 30 minutes and you wouldn't have missed a thing.