Very good adaptation!

Rating: 10/10 (16 November 2001)

I've read all four (to date) of J.K. Rowling's excellent HARRY POTTER novels. As an 18-year old American college student, I'm far from the target audience for this movie, but I went to see it on opening day in hopes that it would live up to its source material.
It did not disappoint.
Practically everything onscreen was close to the way I'd imagined it in my head, and points go to the set designers. Also, this is one movie where the SFX crew really were wizards.
The actors all performed marvellously. The standouts in my mind were Alan Rickman as Professor Snape, and (surprisingly) Sean Biggerstaff as Oliver Wood.
The script was also excellent, hewing very close to the book. A few scenes were removed or merged, but they affected the movie not a bit.
I highly recommend this!