Not overly excited

Rating: 5/10 (12 July 2007)

While the effects where superb, the movie felt like a long montage. Good job to the director for taking the heart out of a great story. For 2.5 hours I sat and couldn't' help but to think, if I hadn't read the book, I would have no clue what was going on. I had to answer plenty of questions afterwards to my friends (that haven't ever read the books) about this movie. I felt that there were many, very important parts missing from this movie. Parts that will be very important in the upcoming films.
Good points; the action was great, Dolores Umbridge was portrayed unbelievably well. There were variations from the book that made this movie hilarious at points (Filch).