As good as the first and better than the second

Rating: 9/10 (22 December 2003)

I have not read any of these books so I began this movie saga with some knowlege of the stories. In the first one I met the charicters and was drawn in to their lives and couldn't wait to see what came next. I was disapointed with the second and had reservations about the third thinking all the punch of these movies may of been thrown in the first round. The mistakes made during the second were learned from and were no were to be found in this film. Some of the plot twists that dragged my attention away from the movie in the second one were in this movie but done with much more skill and hidden under a story that kept me guessing. The action was fantastic and held my "just enjoy the moivie" gene not letting my mind stray on things that didn't seem right. Yes this saga began with a flury was paced with jabs in the middle and delivers a knockout in the end.