Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 238
Fresh: 185 | Rotten: 53
It's not easy to take the longest Harry Potter book and streamline it into the shortest HP movie, but director David Yates does a bang up job of it, creating an Order of the Phoenix that's entertaining and action-packed.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 13
It's not easy to take the longest Harry Potter book and streamline it into the shortest HP movie, but director David Yates does a bang up job of it, creating an Order of the Phoenix that's entertaining and action-packed.
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Young wizard-in-training Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year of studies, only to find that the magical community seems to be in a curious state of denial about his recent encounter with the sinister Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in the fifth installment of the popular fantasy film series based on the best-selling books by author J.K. Rowling. Rumor has it that the dreaded Lord Voldemort has returned, but Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge (Robert Hardy) isn't
PG-13, 2 hr. 18 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Jul 11, 2007 Wide
Nov 11, 2007
$292.0M
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (238) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (192) | Rotten (55) | DVD (29)
Brought me straight back to one of the most enduring of childhood feelings: boredom.
We do get terrific work from the all-star British cast, and the special effects are as seamless as ever.
Director David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance.
Truth be told, it's the lad's many onscreen allies that prove the film franchise's richest draws. (Thank you, Alan Rickman, for your wonderfully embittered turn as Severus Snape.)
Yates, especially given the sinister subject matter on hand, does a rather workmanlike job of traffic-managing the action. But some of the magic effects are indeed magical.
This is the bleakest Potter installment to date, and under David Yates's choppy direction, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, and David Thewlis have little more than walk-ons.
Harry's got quite a lot on his plate this time around and that's both the strength and weakness of Order of the Phoenix.
Además de la afortunada dirección, el que este episodio tuviera un buen resultado, era de esperarse. Con un presupuesto elevado, la mayor parte del elenco repitiendo y el talento histriónico de Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Ca
The director, Peter Yates, pastes on the chiaroscuro, but under it is the summer-camp flatness that's always been the franchise's trademark
The franchise staff (ostensibly led by Brit-TV director David Yates) dive right in, smooshing Rowling's biggest book into the shortest film and treating the rich subtext -- as well as much of the text -- as dispensable.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a gripping, evocative movie. David Yates has two great strengths to apply to the project. He is cinematically adept, and character is a priority for him.
Whether you will enjoy Order of the Phoenix relies, I suspect, largely on whether or not you are a Harry Potter fan to begin with.
The Harry Potter movies that are based on J.K. Rowling's novels have gotten progressively darker with each entry, and Order of the Phoenix may quite possibly be the darkest one yet.
With the supremely evil Valdemort having put in an appearance at the end of the previous film, you might think it would be time to circle the wagons and start planning some defensive strategies ... but you would be wrong.
Aside from the flying thestrals and a giant, there really isn't the same level of creatures or magic in this installment.
There's a nagging feeling of dad trying to rush the family on a vacation. If you hurry this much, you're bound to miss something and that keeps the Potter films away from greatness.
Though it may be blasphemous to say so, this is one movie that is superior to the book.
The longest and weakest of the Potter novels becomes one of the better film adaptations of the series.
Only true fans of the books will notice many of these shortcomings, but I must hope that this was a fluke or misstep, not a sign of things to come.
The most palatable of J.K. Rowling's screen adaptations because it can be appreciated by audiences unfamiliar with either the source material's plot or confounding jargon.
The first four Potter films were pretty decent. But #5? This is the best David Yates can do to start as the director for more than one of the series's films? And no Quidditch? Bah, scumbag.HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX is not a bad film. It's just not good. When I read the book (mentally compare 870
June 14, 2011Super Reviewer
So far, I think this is my favorite movie of the bunch. I love how mundane and utterly infuriating the main villain is (Dolores Umbridge), and I think it speaks volumes to the larger culture of Hogwarts' (the one you don't much get to see) that the other students flock to him for leadership. There are some moments that
May 29, 2007Super Reviewer
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