Year: 2011
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes
Directed By: David Yates
Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 125 Minutes
I'm not sure if I was just really wanting to see this movie and maybe over hyped it to myself, or what the situation was. I didn’t see it at midnight, to avoid the large crowds, but I couldn’t resist waiting to long to see it. I think I was more impressed with the first movie, because it was true to the book. I thought breaking this up into two movies would really give the fans what they wanted. However I left the theatre feeling really unsatisfied and really let down. I will talk more about that later.
The movie really relied more of the end of the book, the part of the book that really got you excited to know what was going to happen. The movie follows Harry, Ron and Hermione right where they left off, in their search of the remaining horocruxes. This movie is the conclusion to the seven part books, the finale between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. The movie started off really well, they jumped right into finding the remaining horocrux in the bank, then in Hogwarts, and you started to see your questions get answered. Then all of a sudden, the battle begun, and things started to happen and I feel important details from the book were skipped that shouldn’t have been.
Part I was over two hours and twenty minutes long, where as Part two was just over two hours. I really thought that this movie would in fact be longer. Include more of the end of the book, especially parts that were read from “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore” which happened in the book. I also would’ve really like to see more about Albus in this movie, as the book did, but they just jumped right into the attack of Hogwarts and it was just really disappointing. It was like they were trying to jam action into a movie that wasn’t an action genre. I also really, really disliked the way Lord Voldemort died, it was just like this powerful evil wizard just vanished, it was really unfortunate. I really would have liked to see a more elaborate battle between “He Who Must Not Be Named” and “The Boy Who Lived.”
Regardless, it was still a good movie, and fans everywhere will love it. My personal opinion just left me a little disappointed, and that could be because of the book. When it came out, I took off work, read it all the way through that day, and couldn’t believe how incredible the ending was. Maybe it is always that way, a book can hardly ever translate to the big screen the way your mind imagines it. It is still worth seeing if you are a Harry Potter fan, or even if you have seen the movies and not read the books, you obviously need to finish this. I am sure this movie will gross an insane amount of money, and it already predicted to shatter an opening day record.
I will give this movie, just like its predecessor, 3.5 out of 5 Elder Wands. The movie was worth the money, and great in 3D, and you should definitely go see it. But as I said before in my Part I post, read the books, and be amazed at how a children’s book evolved into an epic adult novel.
PS: I really feel like they could have given some of the characters justice who died in the film….
TMBro
