Lots of gaps from the source material makes this film difficult to follow

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2004)

I love the Potter yarn so I of course I liked this film. However, the gutting of the book for this one seems much more apparent than it did in the previous two. At times I felt as if I was on a roller-coaster, rushing through the story, hard cut to hard cut. Having read the book I could fill-in easily but for those who did not, following the story could be a challenge. Important second tier characters such as Snape, Black, Hagrid and many others got very light treatment which left me wanting more. I hope that IV and V are done in a 4 hour format to be released on separate dates, say Thanksgiving and Christmas of the same year. If these much longer books are compressed into 2 or even 3 hour films, I feel they will be rendered unrecognizable. As far as I can tell these films make a lot of money so a double release (double profit)makes sense.