Poor acting and unimaginative adaptation almost spoiled a wonderful book

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2001)

Having read and loved Harry Potter, the book, I can sadly report that Harry Potter, the movie, was a disappointment.
The first thing that stroke me was unimaginative adaptation of the book. The movie seems to be some sort of executive summary of the main events in the book and nothing more. Every media has its unique strengths. The book used many of the ones unique to fiction. The movie used none unique to cinematograph (except for some surrounding sound effects).
If the adaptation of the book was bad, the acting by most characters was even worse. The boy playing Harry seemed to have only two expressions: :-O and :-). No more emotions could be seen from him. The boy playing Ron, who is fun, quick, and witty, as all Weasleys, in the book, is quite slow and boring in the movie.
I do want to give lots of praise, however, to the characters of Hermione and Dudley Dursley.
Overall, the movie is still acceptable entertainment is you have absolutely nothing else to do that evening, but do not come there with any high expectation.
5/10