Oh dear. I was really looking forward to this film. Goblet of Fire was excellent and Prisoner Of Azkaban was a marked improvement over the first two films. But this. It has filler, written all over it. So little happens. There doesn't seem to be any plot to forward the narrative. A lot of teenage angst, and some pretty good acting from Daniel Radcliffe and Gary Oldman.
The effects are good enough, apart from Hagrid's half brother. This was always the weakest book in the series and this shows. J.K. Rowling is untouchable, but she really needs an impartial editor who can prune some of the pages and say something like, "there isn't enough story here to justify so many pages!"
What was exciting about the book was the end battle, but it's hardly there at all! From a making of programme I understand they hired a dance choreographer to help with the finale. Well, there wasn't much choreography in what I saw. Just a mess of swirls and lights. If this script was handed in without a certain wizard's name attached it would never have got made. This film is already making a fortune, but it doesn't deserve to. A lazy script producing a lazy film. Rowling and the film producers can do better, and I hope they do with "Half Blood Prince".
Can we really expect great films (Goblet Of Fire certainly was) when they have five films in a series released in just six years? I know the reason for this is obvious, we don't want an actor in his late twenties playing a teenager but the scripts need a little less reverance to Rowling and more effort into what would actually make a good film. A disappointment in what is turning out to be a fairly disappointing Summer.
2 wands out of 5
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