After an entire decade of the Harry Potter films being pumped out every two or three years, it's hard to imagine that it's over.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman
Directed by: David Yates
The Positives:
- The first third of this film can be defined by Emma Watson's cleavage.
- There was a significant amount of action in this film, and just as much murder.
- Snape's death, while a long time coming, was much more horrific than I thought it'd be.
- Voldemort and LeStrange's deaths (while I felt the battles that led up to them were a tad anticlimactic) were harsh and visually destructive.
- Despite being the most serious and darkest in tone, this film still found a way to add humor when needed most.
- Neville really would've done it in four books.
- The CGI was really well done and characters like the stone soldiers and the Gringott's dragon looked fantastic.
- While most of the cast in the epilogue was aged well, Harry Potter and Ginny's makeup stood out to me the most.
- The film moved at a rapid pace and it didn't feel nearly as long to me as I thought it would.
The Negatives:
- The film wasn't nearly as emotional to me as the last film. I was much more hurt by Harry and Ron's strained relationship and Hermione erasing her parent's memories than most of the deaths in this film (I was particularly upset that I didn't feel a thing when Fred and Lupin were found dead.)
- Ron was severely underused compared to the other films.
- The battle at Hogwarts was amazing, though I felt I wasn't shown enough. Some of the most important characters weren't even shown fighting.
- I don't really know how I feel about the 'Harry Potter in the afterlife' scene. It was necessary but I think it could've been done a bit better and less confusing
- Aberforth's character was never really developed.
- Malfoy looked fake and cartoony in the epilogue.
Grade: B+
While not my favorite 'Harry Potter' film, it was a close-to-perfect close to the trilogy.
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