Pjtaylor-96-138044 'Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007)' is more concise than past entries yet seems to suffer from less drive, the plot meandering about somewhat until it kicks into gear towards the third act. Yet, the focus on the school itself and the teenage ensemble is refreshing. It's nice to be introduced to some proper magical combat, too, and this entry manages to maintain a decent tonal balance while it elaborates upon the bleaker aspects of the lore. It's easily one of the best in the series thanks to a fine exploration of several core characters and some proper stakes, even those that go unseen for most of the piece. 8/10

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007)Legendary school boy magician, portrayed with well-prepared professionalism by talented actor Daniel Radcliffe, grows into its teenage years in this fast-paced, constant entertaining piece of cinema with superior special effects sequences directed with convicitions by television director David Yates turning into major leagues of Hollywood with Warner Bros. distributing exclusively worldwide the Heyday film production, led by producer David Heyman, when there twisting story suprises along the story-line adapted from J.K. Rowling's novel, publlished in June 2003, who could not be more proud that her 766-pages-long book, has been translated into a fantasy-action-movie by screenwriter Michael Goldenberg and perfected by staff-editor Mark Day into the shortest "Harry Potter" cut with running shy off 130 Minutes, which only flaw becomes letting some splendid supports with Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort in breathtaking mind-haunting flashing interludes strike onto the protagonist's mind, when the showdown between the dark wizard lord, carefully build throughout the movie series, and Albus Dumbledore, portrayed by Michael Gambon, in magic fire-breathing serpient to sphering water cubes pass by without sharing a sophisticated emotional note.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

hubrokt11 This is my favorite series of Harry Potter. In short, this series is the adventure of Harry Potter, who is the main character of this series, with the scar on his forehead. He and his friends have an adventure using the magic. In this movie, they have a battle with his rival, Lord Voldemort. However, in the battle, one of Harry's fellow, Sirius Black is killed. Harry's name is given by him, so he is like a father. Harry has very strong courage. He challenges a lot of difficulties boldly. Of course, I like the story, but I like the effect in each scene more than that. In battle scene, the CG is used to express the magic. That is very real and has much impact. That attracts me into the screen, so because of it I can enjoy the story and visual fully. Not only this movie, but also other movies are very interesting, so you should watch it.

mistoppi Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the first Harry Potter movie directed by David Yates. Some fans love Yates and his different style, but there are people who don't like him, myself included. Sure, he's the one responsible for my favourite half of the series, where Harry is growing up and everything is darker. But in the movies the characters aren't as deep and the darkness feels more like a colour scheme than a change in the story telling.Yates's style chooses action over the story - which makes no sense when considering what the novel was like. Order of the Phoenix had very little action, but it explored wonderfully, for example, Harry after seeing Voldemort returning and seeing Cedric Diggory being brutally murdered. In the movie you can see it bothers Harry, he is incredibly angry, but that's that. If you haven't read the book it only seems like Harry is having his puberty and therefore a bit moody, even if you could claim he has a case of PTSD. There are many emotional scenes in the novel that weren't included in the movie. They were completely forgotten or replaced by something really, really weird, apart from few that were important to the plot - they saved the scenes that were important when looking at this one movie, but ignored the story as a whole, and they seemed to figure character development was not that important. Harry Potter series is not seven separate stories it's one story in seven parts. At this point it's clear the filmmakers didn't care about the story as much as making the movies and making fans watch them and just get through the whole series. But it's lovely to see the film allowing few characters develop properly: like Neville during the DA. They tried to fake Ginny developing as well by only showing us that she is indeed amazing with spells. Still the filmmakers have forgotten to give her any sort of personality. I love her in the books but in movies she's just an empty husk - skillful of course, but she's not as interesting as in the books. ' Order of Phoenix is over-simplified and is trying to force a story into a film form in the easiest way possible. Yes, sure, they didn't have so much time to focus on the stories individually considering the stars were growing up but still, this is ridiculous.