I'm known to be a tough critic, but this movie in a nutshell was great. I ended up taking my mother who is 59 and has only read the first book, and my son who is 6 and just getting into the series. They both loved it as well. The action was terrific, and they always do a good job on going back in time to give you a bit of a refresher of the previous encounters. Snape is great, as well as Professor Slughorn. As always the effects were outstanding, and as for those people bashing it because it wasn't as detailed as the book.... well get over it. You will never have a movie that is as detailed as the book. If there was one downfall it was that they never showed Voldemort.