It seems fairly redundant to do a spoiler free review for a movie based an an absurdly popular book, but I shall try to do so.
Whenever you move a story from one medium to another things will inevitably be lost in translation. The pacing in the movie is vastly different from the pacing of the book. The first part of the movie is almost entirely dedicated to an obscene amount of awkward teen drama going on around Hogwarts, while the second part of the movie covers more of the actual important plot points of the story. While the teen awkwardness does provide some much needed humor in a rather dark story, I feel it goes on for far too long. I'm being honest when I say that there are probably more then 15 minutes of this film devoted solely to awkward silences. For me the movie moved along quite slow until we reached the point where actual story begins, intrigue and danger tend to do that to a film.
Overall I would say that they did a very good job with this movie. As is expected with the Harry Potter franchise the acting, sets, and special effects are all fantastic. Again I could have dealt with a lot less of the teen awkward moments, but overall they did a good job staying true to the story.
My only real complaint is that there is a villain on screen who is never properly introduced. If you have never read the books you will probably wonder who the hairy dude on screen is, and why they seem to devote so many closeups of him while never mentioning his name or why he looks so creepy. He is Fenrir Greyback, he is a werewolf who is into cannibalism, and I am sad they didn't devote a little more time to introducing a very creepy well made villain.
Oh that and a big battle was left out, but that is not the point here.
Naturally the movie isn't as good as the books, but it's quite enjoyable.
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