Essentially unwatchable

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2019)

I will never understand how this movie gets the ratings that it does. I saw it as a child when it first came out and hated it. To be fair, its impossible for the movies to weave the same kind of magic as the books. I thought I would be able to appreciate it separate from the books as an adult but oh man was I wrong, still unwatchable. The script is thin and the acting is awful. The only saving graces are Richard Harris as Dumbledore and a marvelous score. Otherwise, this film is decidedly unmagical.