i didn´t like the movie. too much left out... the 'peck' of owls, the howler, the advance guard, sirius's mom, hermione and ron becoming prefects, mrs. weasley's boggart, more elaboration on harry's dreams, the room of requirement was really dreadful, the whole bones, marietta edgecombe, sturgis podmore, mundungus fletcher storylines removed, no St. Mungos, no hagrid inspection, no quidditch, no maddam puddifoot's, no portable swamp, no o.w.l.s (astronomy, history, dada) no attack on mcgonagall and hagrid, etc. it was a pretty big dissapointment for me. figg not at all like in the books, really.

the battle at the ministry was pretty bad as well. we didnñt see the circular room with the doors, or the other parts of the department of misteries, the dialogue in the hall of profecies was nothign like the one in the book, dumbledore did not show up at the veil room, sirius did not die the way he used to, harry listened to the profecy from the orb, and the battle between dumbledore and voldemort was not nearly as good! where was the shield, where was fawkes, why didn't the fountain protect harry?

we also didn't get to see harry talking to sirius and lupin through umbridge's fire, or attempting to find sirius and talking to kreacher instead, what happend to the whole quibbler storyline, the interview, and rita?

we also missed out on sirius giving harry the mirror, and the big talk between harry and dumbledore in the end, and that was VERY important!! also, we didn't see harry really suffering sirius's death, we didn't even see him talking to nick about sirius becoming a ghost!

i was very very dissapointed by the movie, i had such high expectations, i even attended a midnight screening...

the acting was much improved compared to previous movies, though and the cgi was very impressive. i especially liked how dumbledore trapped voldemort in the sphere of water, very very cool indeed.

rating: 7/10