A Good movie.

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2002)

Only 2 spoilers ahead but they only have to deal with Harry's personality, not any major plot point of the movie.....
I would like to make comment to all of those who feel that Daniel Radcliff did not make a good Harry. First of all I would like to point out that the way they made him look in the movie he is a dead ringer for every picture of Harry I've seen drawn. In fact, having never read the books at the time I saw the first commercial, and having not gotten far enough into the commercial for them to identify the name of the movie, as soon as I saw him (in a shot with no scar) I was like wow, he looks like that Potter kid drawings. When I saw the title I said "Oh, well that explains why he looked so much like him."
I then saw the movie again before having read any of the books and thought based on the very short introduction involving the Dursleys, that Harry SHOULD be the quiet fairly unemotional type, after all he has obviously not had a very eventful social life, and he lives in a closet. His aunt, uncle and cousin obviously hate him and are incredibly selfish pigs. Had I lived in that kind of environment I figure I would learn to block out my emotions too. I then read all 4 books in a matter of a week and determined that is EXACTLY how he was supposed to be presented. Harry is an emotional wreck, when Hagrid first told him he was a wizard he thought there must be some mistake, there was nothing special about Harry in his mind, indeed if anything he was nothing more then a slave boy, certainly not someone with any sort of power whatsoever. Harry has lived 10 painful years with the Dursleys, he hides his emotions well, by becoming cold and distant. It is exactly how Rowling presented him to be and it's exactly how Radcliff acted as him.
I was very impressed with all 3 as after reading the books and rereading book 1 to my niece, I feel they nailed their characters exactly. I look forward to the Chamber of Secrets with almost as much anticipation as I do for book 5 to be released.