This is an ok Harry Potter Movie, but it suffers from the fact that it spends a lot of time setting up various strands which don't pay off in this movie, but will obviously figure in the upcoming 3 films still to come. The film also suffers because the films aren't backed up by a book - you take these more on their own merits, rather than from loving the books, which means there is more unknown. The story is not as grand as the other in the Harry Potter world - the main arc is finding out a characters name, with no backdrops of peril at Hogwarts, or competitions etc, which means the pace is much slower, and more meandering in direction. That said, the final showdown is worthy of the series history and makes up for much of the slowness of before. A solid, if not remarkable, addition to the setting.