Product: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Rating: 3.0
This one let us down a little
OK, you can't compress War and Peace into a 2-hour film. But a little of the World Cup could have been pressed in, surely no one would have complained. And there's no excuse for turning Harry's beautiful finessing, all in front of a rapt & gasping crowd, of the broody Horntail into just another wreckage-strewn chase scene - certainly it saved no time.Moody: Gleeson doesn't quite fill Mad-Eye's boots, seems tempted to ham it up a little. For me, Moody's less flamboyant, more hard-bitten, harsher featured.Voldemort: Ralph Fiennes, a fine actor, is sort of wasted in such a one-dimensional role. Not his fault, but whence all the accolades?Still, a good film in other respects, very watchable; just, given the material, not as good as it should have been and in that regard (for me), the least of the four.