Review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) by Joshua B — 09 Jul 2013

Year Four is probably my favourite in the series, the dazzling special effects and tremendous action sequences make up for moving so far away from the source material. Harry and the rest of the characters have visually matured allowing the director to put them in more perilous and threatening positions, thus changing the entire dynamic of the series making it darker and more visually stunning.

The actors' skills have improved dramatically over the course of the entire series and they are no more honed than they are in this movie, the script plays a big part but the strained relationship between Harry and Ron with Hermione playing peacemaker is one of the more impressive plot points in the entire film as the actors play it so well and genuine (helped with a little bit of foul language from Rupert Grint, helping with the more mature tone of the film).

Also starring a younger Robert Pattinson (you know, from those movies about the vampires) in his best role to date, playing one of Harry's opponents in the "Tri-Wizard Tournament" whose untimely demise gives us one of the series' more emotional moments and showing us that Daniel Radcliffe is not an emotionless drone.

A quite brilliant instalment in one of the best film series' of all time, it was always going to be hard to better Prisoner Of Azkaban but Goblet Of Fire made a very good attempt and may have even succeeded.