First of the final installement of the Harry Potter franchise!
The end is near!
Harry Potter, 9 years it has taken to get to this point, some of the films have been great some average, but for the readers some just too much has been missed out. Not that I care, I haven't read the books and don't intend to now. I get the gist of the story! Even if it's all very Lord of the rings! I can live with just seeing the films!
Anyway the film, it's not bad, better than the last one, not by a lot, but enough. It kept my attention and my eldest liked it as well, again more than the previous one!
It's more of a setup for the final battle, with a lot of running around and not really doing much, a bit of humour to lighten a very dark mood, but not enough to spoil the atmosphere, which is becoming very heavy and dark.
However even in this day and age, they still managed to use some rather shabby special effects, the chase at the start is littered with poor effects shots, the bit in the tunnel, the worst of them all!
The story does feel disjointed at times, and never really flows, things just seem to happen, maybe it's down to bad editing, or just a bad writing! But still there is enough to like in this film.
Radcliffe is still very wooden, Watson is superb even if she's competing with Stewart (Twilight) for the most angst teen girl in cinema at the moment! She is really running Stewart a fine race, though I've not seen the 3rd Twilight yet! Grint gets better again, along with Watson he has matured as an actor! The rest of the cast are bit parts, and there are so many of them as well. But this film belongs to the 3 main stars, I would say they have 70% of the screen time, the rest fight for scraps! Which is a shame because it's a very strong supporting cast!
Is it going to go out with a bang - Yes I would say so!
Am I glad it's nearly all over - Yes I am!
(7/10)
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