Not a bad offering

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2004)

This latest book conversion in the series lives up to expectations. While the other characters retain a sense of whit and live up to what you would expect, harry reveals more to both sides of himself - his flaws as a child and depth as a growing person. That aside, this movie works quite well independantly - I saw it with 2 people who had no interest in seeing the previous movies and they admired the films other good points: Nice special effects & constant plot twists. A lot of plot detail exists here to attempt to make us think but for me, this is where the movie flounders as an offering for adults as the more intelligent and critical of us will predict crutial plot points quite easily and lead to self awareness, Saying that - the plot points retain their emotion and fight off boredom. Child Acting, Plot (too fast to retain depth, restrained to one location), One very lord of the rings comparable creature & obvious CGI in moments sum up my gripes. The score is top notch and the OST worth an independant listen (- John Williams usual amazing standard).