Customer Reviews

Not great but still entertaining - By: T. R. Alexander, 03 Sep 2008
Although I am not the greatest Harry Potter fanin the world I have always enjoyed the film series & thankfully this film continues this trend. The Order of the Phoenix sees the dark lord Voldemort gathering his forces but with the Ministry of Magic refusing to acknowledge his return Harry & his friends must defy the Ministryin order to prepare for the coming war. Complicating matters is Ms Umbridge, the Ministry appointed Defence from the Dark Arts teacher, who is willing to do anything for the Ministry of Magic.

I haven't read any of the Potter books as yet & as such I cannot comment about how closely this film sticks to the book & I have heard mixed reports on the subject. Nevertheless I do feel that the film fitsin very will with the style established by the other moviesin the series & did enjoy watching the film. The acting is, like the previous films, mixed with some good performances, a few great performances & the odd bad performance on show. The true strength of this film though is the strong writing, which is funny & tensein equal measure, & the special effects that are impressive throughout. Overall the Order of the Phoenix is probably one of the best of the Potter films released so far but it is still missing something that would make it a great film.

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Another slightly above average movie in the Potter franchise - By: N. Thompson, 27 Aug 2008
As expected this is a little darker but sadly not as good as 'The Goblet of Fire'. This isnt by any means a poor film, I quite enjoyed it but it is something that I'll proberbly never watch again. New characters are broughtin & old characters continue to develop. This film seems shorter than the others but there doesnt seems to be as much substance to it, unlike the others.

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Dissapointed - By: Je Mischenko, 14 Aug 2008
As a big Harry Potter fan I was quite dissapointed with this film. Many of the changes made from the books were unnessacery & dumbed down, I have to say the best thingin the film was Evvanna Lynch's portrayal of Luna, I loved the scenein the forest with just her & Harry.

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Enough Dross to Ensure Success. - By: H. A. C. John, 09 Jul 2008
Any writer of a film's 97th review, unless he's so confidentin the drawing-appeal of his offering's title, that he thinks it shall be the first one to be read, should be confident, &in this case pleased, that his subject is known too well to the reader not to spare him the need to inflict on him the same trash that Warner's is still peddeling to viewers; for that, I'm grateful.
Let me help you; if you think that what this film contains might appeal to you, then a U.K. 'bus journey should provide the same types of incidents & horrors that this awfullness provides for a fraction of the cost, albeit still too much; & would also offer the type of personal involvement, rather than any registrable measurements of active thinking, that is so necessary for museums to provide before they can receive a Lottery grant, or, that couldn't be foundin your local Playstation store: din; facial grimmacing; retarded speach; slang; fluently muttering, un-developed minds; tumult; a passion of aimlessness; a belieflessnessin everything & anything exceptin the un-proveable or un-knowable or the latest fashion; cliches of behaviour & language & action & thought, comporablein riches to the content of an exploded balloon, all these are to be found either here, or, as I have already recommended,in the transport that you may find yourself unluckilly being conveyedin on the way to experience more of the same on the screen, or,in the adjoining stall.
All the now obligatory infuriating modernisms of to-day's cinema are offering widescreen evidence against themselves for you to examinein discomforting leisure: every second constantly edited to distract & amaze us with the swiftness & fury of the filmaker's art, as though the camera was trying to dislodge something from it's eye, by perpetually blinking, (or shuttinig it, often, so as to try & not watch), to convince us of the relevance of the spectacle, which only reveals that not one of them is worth dwelling on; the un-remmitting background symphony, from a generation of people left on telephonic hold, adding glory & majesty, like the Heavenly choir it's very subject matter denies, giving the idea that we can't even listen to this rubbish unless, like everywhere else these days, we aren't tuned in, first, to some background gunge, etc., etc..
Confident of this good advice going to waste, I'm convinced of this Review's title, as this seems to be what the public wants, if it ever has known without being told, since it supplies so much of it free of charge itself, before being dispersed by those fortunate enough to be able to afford a Mosquitto alarm.
Like all the filmsin this series, when the staying power of it's 'charms' persuades the then enlightened buyer to place it on the shelf of his local charity shop, at least it will allow you to buy it for deliberate burialin the corporation dust cart; there's nothing like an altruistic public act, there's no place like home for this disc, & at least some good shall have come of it all.

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another entertaing installment - By: martin thomas, 07 Jun 2008
again another entertaining installmentin the entertaining harry potter series.the three leads are really starting to maturein to good young actors