This Harry Potter is the darkest and scariest of the Harry Potter series and for reasons that are obvious to those that have read the book. Now just like the other movies this did not cover A LOT of the book which especially for a book of THIS length left the watcher feeling a little jipped. There's not exactly but in the way of character development except sex hormones for most of the movie whereas in the books there is A LOT of internal maturity going on in many of the characters which we only catch glimpses of in this film. Nonetheless you must make do with what you have and this film did a good job with what it did have. Great CGI and dialogue as usual. Amazing music and acting at it's peak. I've yet to see a film with Helena Bonham Carter that isn't good and where she isn't amazing.
The director did an excellent job at keeping the movie going and keeping the tone dark enough during the entire time that we never stopped bracing ourselves and were always looking for what was next. However in order to do this it felt like someone had filmed the entire book and just completely cut out sections of it with a video editor. There we many scenes in which I felt the transition didn't even happen. It was if they just jumped ahead 4 months and that was supposed to be normal. This movie was 2 and 1/2 hours and it still had to do that just to make it work at all. This movie NEEDED to be put into two separate movies but they relented and made one. BIG mistake and it cost them 2 stars. Go see this movie if you have kids and/or obviously if you've read the Harry Potter books. It's worth seeing but don't expect to see everything from the book. Ease the pain and read the book again after you watch the movie. Then fill in the gaps with your own movie scenes. Needed more Voldermort though. CMON BRO!
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