A good movie that is put to shame by the book.

Rating: 7/10 (13 August 2007)

Of course I know that you can't have everything... but why make the longest (and one of the best) HP books into the shortest movie? The plot basically followed the book, while leaving some rather important things out, but I expected this of a barely over two hour movie that was supposed to follow an 860 page book. My basic complaint is again, the shortness of the movie. I felt the characters (since there were so many new ones) got little screen time and some of the best parts of the book got shortened so they seemed like nothing at all (ie Weasley Twins, you'll know what I mean if you've read the book.) Overall, this is OK. I expected things to be taken out, but this was so fast paced and left so many things cut short that my brother (who had not read the book yet) had to ask me several times during the movie what the heck was going on.
Otherwise, the acting is super, the set is as usual fantastic and the cinematography was great.
If only they had made is less rushed/longer.