Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Movie Review
By: Beevers
Let me start this review by letting you all know that I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan. I have read all the books and watched all the movies multiple times. So you can imagine how much I have been looking forward to this final film and also what high hopes I had for it. I was worried that I may be disappointed as I have been with other films lately. Let me just say that I had nothing to worry about!
The film starts exactly were Part 1 left off. With Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) at the grave of Dobby and Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) having just taking the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's corpse. There is no recap of what has happened in Part 1 so you may want to watch it again before you go to refresh your memory.
FYI- I have tried to stay as spoiler free as I can with this review.
Harry, Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) resume their quest for the rest of the Horcruxes. After considering how upset Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) was when she had thought that Harry had been in her Gringott's vault they decide that would be the best place to look next. Thus begins the last great journey for Harry, Ron, & Hermione. With the help of Griphook (Warwick Davis) they work out a plan to gain entry to Bellatrix’s vault. Of course everything doesn’t go as planned and they end up battling their way out with the help of a dragon.
Next they head to Hogsmeade and Hogwarts in their quest for the final Horcruxes. This is where the big battle scenes take place and you get to see lots of action. Without giving too much away I will say that you will finally get to see Snape’s (Alan Rickman) true colors which I have been looking forward to for a long time. You also get to see Neville (Matthew Lewis) finally show his full potential, which was awesome. I know that there was some controversy over the filming of the ending but I thought that the director, David Yates, did a good job with it, no complaints from me.
For those of you that have read the books you already know that the films do differ a bit due to the fact that they need to cut out a lot of material and then because of cutting out material they have to change things a bit for it all to make sense. It may not have helped that I just re-read the book prior to watching the movie but I have to say that I was pleased in the way they handled this issue.
I didn’t feel that they cut out any necessary parts or make any huge changes. Of course, the books version is always better, but I loved this film.
9 out of 10 sandwiches!
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