john-3047

Up until now the Order of the Phoenix was my least favorite Harry Potter Movie this one has now taken that position. I know it is difficult to compress a large book into the time frame of a movie deciding what to leave out and how to close the plot holes created. This one however deviates further from the book than its predecessors it not only leaves a lot out as expected, it has added scenes that are not in the book and appear to have been included only to enhance the 3D effects in the cinema, make things difficult for the next director to stick to the original story line (e.g. The sequences at the borough) or like the scene in the railway café for no logical purpose; and is out of character with the book. Each new director has understandably put his own stile on the movie, but at some point I ask is this a continuing story following the lives and adventures of a group of teenage wizards over a seven year period, in which case there should be some consistency and continuity throughout the series, if so Hogwarts and locations and objects within it should not change from movie to movie. If on the other hand the movies are not meant to be a continuing story but separate adventures that just have the same character's then this movie OK, but there were so many inconsistence's and contradictions to the books and the other movies that I found it very jarring to watch as part of the Harry Potter series and as such was disappointing.

Quantum of Solace is a good action movie better than many as it has some good actors in the principle rolls. But that's all it is, an American style action movie with a series of special effects linked together with a tenuous plot and a high body count, with a few plot devices pilfered from earlier JB movies throne in for good measure. If action movies turn you on then you will love this movie, you may even believe the studio hype that it is "The perfect Bond film" and I have no doubt it will make a lot of money for the studio. As a James Bond fan the things that set the Bond films apart from the rest and has kept the franchise going for over 45 years wasn't just the stunts and the special effects, it was the element of fantasy, the portrayal of Bond as a intelligent, charming, sophisticated character rather than a macho thug. It was Q, the gadgets and the cars. It was the clever dialog and the humour in the script. All these things are missing in this movie. The studio must have decided it was more profitable to go with the trend more violence and effects and less plot and intrigue, where the thrill of the ride was more important than the dialogue. This movie would have worked just as well whatever the lead character was called. As a current generation American style action movie I would give it eight out of ten but as a James Bond movie maybe one or two if I am feeling generous. Bond, James Bond, I don't think so.

I enjoyed the movie very much, but then Peter O'Toole is a grate Actor and his films are usually worth watching. The one irritating thing was not with the movie but with the plot description on this site. The plot states that "he was the sole survivor of his crew, that has been decimated" this is impossible the word decimated means to reduce by one tenth so you could never have just one survivor. The writer could have used Destroyed, wiped out, all killed or slaughtered; any of these would have made more sense. If one is going to put things up on an international site you should make sure that you know what words mean before you use them. There were also some spellings mistakes in the plot even web browsers have spelling checkers these days so there is no excuse