Review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) by Justin L — 07 Nov 2012

One of the top movies of the decade. With a few minor improvements, this movie is so close to the book, even I find it hard to nitpick the differences between this and the book. However, no movie can ever copy a book perfectly, its impossible, and one can't really complain about it.

The movie itself though is just great in every way. The story and plot is awesome, the characters are exciting and interesting, the special effects are really good, and the pace is perfect, not too fast, not too slow, unlike some of the other harry potter movies, which isn't exactly a bad thing.

Without Chris Columbus being the director, the pacing did change, and kind of had too as they went along, and did their interpretations of longer and longer books. But this movie right here is not only as close an adaptation to a book as it gets, but just a great and enjoyable film altogether.

If you have no problem with fantasy, you will like this movie.