The Best of the Three, But Still Missing Something

Rating: 9/10 (28 September 2004)

I found this film to be the best of the three movies out thus far, mainly because of the general feel of the movie. It was more on an emotional level than the first two, and good guys and bad guys aren't so well-defined like they are in movies one and two. It wasn't just a battle of good and evil, it was about turning thirteen and the emotional dealings that come with it. Obviously, not every single detail of the book could be filmed since it would most likely take five hours to show the book scene-by-scene. With this film, I didn't mind what they ended up cutting out (for the most part) because they made up for that lack with what I would definitely call good character development and emotional content. My only negative comment about the film is that they left out some information that was necessary to follow the storyline that only people who have read the books would understand. Otherwise it was an excellent film.