We started to look at these films again, because our local cinema projectionist and owner of the cinema in La Châtre (Cinéma Lux), Didier Godet, has a son who is a great fan of Potter and we borrowed his DVD-films.
In this film we find Harry and his friends during their third year at Hogwarts and there are some changes at the school but also troubles outside, approaching Potter and being a threat towards his life.
This threat comes by the name of Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), who has escaped from 'The Wizard's Prison'. Black is the one supposed to have killed his parents. But is it really he who is responsible for that?
Before him Potter and his friends have to face the 'Dementor's', very ugly and dangerous creatures, with no mercy.
"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them... Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself...soulless and evil. You will be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life." , Remus Lupin (David Thewlis) to Potter.
We've never been so enthusiastic about the Potter movies and this is no exception, even though it might be one of the better we've seen, as the first ones are, in our opinion.
I won't write more about this film from the point of view connaisseur, because I'm not and what has not been written about Potter and his world, is not worth knowing.
What I can say is that the - in my opinion - superb actor Gary Oldman, who normally is very good at playing psychopaths, is not particularly frightening in this film and neither are the other characters.
The most frightening creatures here is the 'Dementors', created in the computer and not even they were creepy.
Films made for children or very young adolescents but....
The ambivalent use of Potter's (and the other characters) powers is also a bit annoying - as in most movies with some kind of 'super heroes', if we can call Potter so.
Sometimes they are almost invincible, sometimes they can't fight the most insignificant antagonist.
This is of course always done to create suspense but it's not credible and the scripts have to become more convincing concerning these aspects of the super hero-sagas.
This is of course the same as in later years Batman-movies or the like, 'The Dark Night Rises' with the ridiculous opponent Bane (Tom Hardy), being the, almost, 'greatest' threat towards Batman.
It really makes you sigh!
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