Well, okay...yeah. The series is over in more ways than one now. The books are over and, in case you didn't read them, then maybe you were surprised at some of the events in this movie. And if you haven't seen any of the movies or read any of the books, then I'd like to know how you were surviving living at the center of the earth.I find the hype for this movie a little silly, because everyone who is excited has read the books and everyone who has read the books knows what happens. Okay, I got that out of the way. Now for what I thought.
This movie was good. Not great. Good. It was a good movie with good action and okay acting. (Emote Radcliffe! Emote, God damn you!)
I wish that the magic made more sense. I don't really understand how dueling works. Voldemort is a lame villain. These all drag down the movie, but still, my biggest compliment I can give the Harry Potter series, is that it is well plotted. I was surprised when reading Deathly Hallows so many years ago, that two of the Hallows had been in plain sight since the beginning of the series. And that the Horcruxes made their debut in the second book. I like stuff like that. I applaud stuff like that. It's hard. Especially when it's in a series of books written over a span of ten years. Keeping that all straight CAN'T be easy...I know...I tried. If only the villain were more threatening, and the exact mechanics of dueling were explained a little more. (How does the Elder Wand make the killing curse stronger? Does it kill them harder?)
This is just nitpicking, but they're big nits. I still enjoyed myself. And in the scene when Harry summoned his mother, father, Lupin and Sirius, I got a little choked up. When Harry reached out to touch his mother's hand and simply passes through, I understood how the Resurrection Stone could drive one insane. That's good filmmaking. Which is what this movie is. Good. Not great. Good is okay, though.
Alan Rickman is the British Christopher Walken...think about it.
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