Didn't make any sense to me!

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 2001)

I have not read the Harry Potter books. I generally enjoyed the movie, but a lot of things made no sense to me. Why was the stone removed from the vault? How did Flamel lose the stone? Was Voldemort or the stammering teacher actually Flamel? If not, then why mention Flamel is going to die once the stone has been destroyed? Why have an elaborate system of defenses and booby-traps (Fluffy, the vines, the giant chess game, the flying keys, etc.) to protect a stone that just appears in your pocket, anyway? I assume those defenses are to protect the stone from bad guys, but where is the stone hidden? The movie does not make that clear. Why was the mirror, easily accessible before, suddenly moved by Dumbledor to this hard-to-access place? Why would kids be punished with a detention (which means locked up, not set free!) to the dark forest where evil lurks, and death is almost certain? Isn't that like putting someone on death row for going 45 mph in a 25 mph zone? In Quidditch, why even bother with putting the balls through the hoops if all you need to do is catch the little glitch ball to win the game? Why is the wand Harry gets so special?---he almost never uses it, anyway! Why is there such an inexplicable gap in the film near the end . . . where Harry, having recovered the stone, suddenly finds himself in bed. Who found the kids? Was Harry taken back unconscious? Did they run out of movie film? Why did Harry have a lightning bolt scar on his forehead? It is not explained how it got there, or why. Why must the giant chess game be commanded from the knight's horse, thus putting Weasely in danger? How do the chess pieces move around, considering all the rubble on the board? And a million more questions!
Maybe the book is logical and fully details everything. But the movie makes no sense at all for anyone who hasn't read the book. I was disappointed by some of the plot ideas, and some of the use of old standard mythology. I did like the wall with the moving bricks, the moving staircases, and the flying keys. But nothing much else. Even the much-heralded Quidditch game wasn't all that great to see---and the rules didn't make any sense anyway.
Unless all the answers are in the film, and I somehow failed to see them, this movie is a disaster for non-readers of JK Rowling.