Best one yet - Hail to Alfonso Cuarón - appropriately dark & a fresh new feel

Rating: Null/10 (12 June 2004)

Hail to Alfonso Cuarón! This film was easily the most exciting, not because of the story but because of the direction - The special effects were finally a bit "special" the previous films didn't even have smoking potions and every spell in the dual did the same thing.... $5 in dry ice would have gone a long way... I hope Alfonso Cuarón sticks with the series, he has vision and I think actually cared about the story in a way Chris Columbus didn't.
Sure there were some minor flaws (how did Lupin know the parchment was a map?) but what film doesn't?
If folks are concerned about it being dark, read the books, it only gets more dark - the bad guy is coming. I expect they will need to replace some of the actors as time goes by unless they crank out two or three movies at once like they did with LOTR.