Christopher Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Columbus had most success with the first two films in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, along with Home Alone, winning a British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Film. —Wikipedia
Honestly, I think the actors had a clearer vision and purpose in this film than anything else including the writing and direction. If the actors did their thing but a director purposefully undermined the story with a very different tone, we might have something worth watching. Instead we've seen every scene before, and the only one-two personality quirks in dialog get lost in copy paste, find replace. --DiB
This only gets two stars instead of one because of how hot Hayden is and ridiculous the towel whipping scene.