Thankfully my ability to objectively look at cinema for what it truly is and how it appeals to my senses and intelligence or even appreciation of entertainment on the screen has not been diminished by my love for Harry Potter.

I looked forward to this movie because it was going to be interesting as to how they were going to adapt the long, slow and probably my least favourite of all the books in the series so far.

I was extremely disappointed. I found the movie to be a shoddy work where people who have read the books will gasp at the poor editing job and people who haven’t read the books will have no clue as to what the hell is happening. I found the casting of new the characters really good – Luna, Bellatrix and Umbridge but I wish the movie hadn’t dragged on and on forever. The greatest flaw lay in the fact that the movie ignores the prime foundation of book 5 – Harry’s isolation from everyone else that only seems to deepen as the novel progresses.