From: deevo37@NOSPAMbigpond.com   
      
   And overall I was pleasantly surprised bu the film adaptation.   
      
   I skipped this one at the cinema mainly because I felt that in breaking the   
   seventh book into two parts, WB would be making this a cash generating   
   action fest rather than telling the story of the book.  There was some   
   pretty intense action in the film but not so over the top as to diminish the   
   story telling even though there were a coouple of small scenes that were   
   deleted that I felt would have fleshed out the story a bit further.   
      
   If part 2 keeps the story going effectively this could potentially be the   
   filmic adaption that actually improves on the book.  I've made no bones in   
   the past that I felt this is the weakest of the latter books.  Personally I   
   get the impressionm that much of it was written by Rowling around the same   
   time as the Philosopher's Stone and she just fleshed out and refined the   
   work rather than writing the story from scratch.  I felt that the style of   
   the book seemed to take a backward step after book 6 (my personal favourite   
   of the books) and this is what gave me that impression.   
      
   On the whole there were still elements of the film that required a reading   
   of the book to understand so, like some of the previous films, it would have   
   presented some difficulties in comprehenstion but on the whole it was pretty   
   good.  Not Academy award winning stuff mind you but a fair filmic adaption.   
      
   As films go I'd give it a solid three and a half out of five stars.   
      
   P.S. The seven Harrys scene is a pretty decent chuckle on its own.   
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   Deevo   
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