Harry Potter is a very faitful adaptation to the book, this is a higly unusual thing that has happened, so far this film, "Stand By Me", and "LOTR", truly do keep up to the spirit of the book, the storyline is very good, but it could have been excellent if they shouldn'have cut the Norbert stuff, it felt that they butchered the book there, but is still acceptable, the special FX are really good, though in LOTR are better, this ones are still sharp, the acting is very good, but Daniel Radcliffe needs to express more his feelings,he did a better job on David Copperfield, but otherwise he will improve, but he still is a very good actor, the camerawork is excellent it truly does feel like magic, the music is really good, is almost as good as all the music by John Williams, but it dosen't become one of his top five, but it still works truly to the film, anyways this film ranked number 2 on my 2001 top ten list, if i hadn't seen LOTR it would have been number 1.