Product: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Rating: 3.0
Hmmm...
I have severely mixed feelings about this movie. It was good cinematically, with amazing special effects and great acting. But it basically skipped from main event to main event, not explaining the few bits it kept in (Rita Skeeter, Neville's heartbreaking story, etc.) It seemed VERY rushed-through.For instance, there was the case of Sirius Black. (If I sound biased, he IS my favorite character...) It gave the impression of "the entire last movie was about him, but instead of giving him decent screen time, we'll cram him into a (very odd and much different from the book) fireplace scene". I'm not slighting Gary Oldman, as usual, his performance as everyone's favorite ex-Azkaban convict was brilliant. It was the amount of screen time that bugged me. (Plus, it's absolutely against his character to think he'd not be there right after Harry's horrific experience in the graveyard. Heck, AZKABAN couldn't even keep him from helping his godson!)Neville was acted spectacularly by Matthew Lewis, but his parental trauma was barely explained and it was never fully communicated to you the reason Fake Moody was so gleeful at Neville's reaction to the Cruciatus Curse -- he himself had participated in the torture of Frank and Alice Longbottom. And again, Brendan Gleeson was great, except for that stupid eye. I always pictured it as a huge, slimy, moving eye, not a pirate's eye patch, but hey, that's just me.So, all in all, it was a good movie, but it could have been so much better. I'm praying they don't mess up my favorite book of the series in the movie adaptation: Order of the Phoenix.Rating: Average