What a bag of turd!

Rating: 2/10 (19 August 2005)

This is what happens when you let an American director completely spoil a superb British book (yes nothing to do with America at all). There is so much missed out of this film that was in the book, and some of the parts that are in the book have been changed and they are so lame it's unbelievable. As for the characters, I don't think i've ever seen an actor (if you can call him that) as wooden as Daniel Radcliffe. Another mistake by the Americans, picking an actor as expressionless as Radcliffe to play our main character. Ron is OK, but he is how you would imagine him to be. Hermione may be fit but she's way too soppy for the film and doesn't do the Hermione from the book justice. As for Alan Rickman as Snape, you couldn't pick a worse person for the part. Don't get me wrong, Rickman is a fantastic actor, but I couldn't stand to watch him in this. His performance can only be summed up in one word: pathetic. Now that Columbus and Cuaron have f*cked off and handed over the directing reigns to an Englishman, I look forward to the new film, the Goblet of Fire. I hope that this new director, brings Harry Potter to life and save the books, now that Chris Columbus and Alfonso Cuaron have given them such a sh*t reputation with their weak, atrocious portrayals of what is, in my opinion, one of the best books I've ever read. Miss it if you can, and oh yeah, i am not prejudiced against Americans but it's called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, none of this Sorcerer's Stone crap thank you very much!