A completely disappointing film.

Rating: 7/10 (5 June 2004)

This film style was a turn for the worse in Harry Potter. The film
quality was grainy. It looked like it was shot in the 80's.
Taken as a whole it seems to miss the key concepts of the Harry Potter
books. The books are a coming of age story. They are about
friendships. Somehow the movie completely forgot to develop the
friendships at all.
The plot felt disjointed. There was no flow to the movie. It was like
jumping around the book and reading a paragraph here and a paragraph
there but the dot's didn't connect.
By comparison to the previous two HP films, this one strayed from being
a mystery suspense novel and instead was a 2 hour and 15 minute version
of the last 2 minutes of a Scooby Doo episode.
Thoroughly disappointed. Bring back Columbus.