The mangled residue of a great story - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

It is as if they had the book storyline drawn and quartered, then reattached the legs where the arms go, one arm where one leg goes, and a parakeet where the other leg goes. That is how badly the story was butchered. I understand you cannot follow a book (especially one as big as Phoenix) directly in a movie adaptation. However, if there isn't enough room for what actually happened than why add things that didn't happen at all? From the perspective of someone who's read and loved the books and the movies I am just plain angry and utterly disappointed. If I had not read the books I imagine I'd be confused. The storyline they cobbled together from remnants of J.K. Rowling's novel makes little sense without some prior knowledge. Some very important aspects of the story were left out which will make it necessary to either ignore the existence of this film when the last two come out, or continue to create a whole new storyline. The only good thing about the movie was the special effects, which were on par with most special effects movies nowadays. Overall, I feel as though I not only wasted 2 hours of my life, but was also tortured for the duration of that 2 hour period.