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The movie only passingly reflected the second half of the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Corners were cut and a masterpiece of a book was turned into a misshapen and expensive failure. Oh, it may be a financial success, but because of what remains of the magic and greatness of the book.

In the book it was lies, hate, and abuse that separated one side from the other. Harry Potter's side was one of inclusion, of giving people choice and showing mercy. In the movie, both sides are vicious and stupid. The beautiful details and realism found in the fantasy of the book was cheapened and abbreviated in the movie. Where as the earliest movies also abbreviated from the book, as essentially all movies will, it was done in such a way that the true magic grown in the reading of the books could still be found in the movies.

I came into this movie with high hopes. I saw the high rating and I knew the last book really picked up in the second half. The makers of the movie had more time with which to delve into the details since they'd split the single book into two movies. Yet scene after scene in which I wanted to see and hear the mystery and beauty I imagined while reading the book, each scene was ultimately unsatisfying, unfaithful, and mediocre.

I was looking forward to seeing the finale of the potter series, as the other films have been quite well presented. The latest 3 movies however have cutout vital bits of the story and the finale is just a joke. The film started off quite fast relative to the book, the whole breaking into Gringots scence was poorly adapted from the book. The final chapters of the book where 100 times better than the final parts of the film. When harry looks through Snape's memories it is way to brief, in the book a lot of emotion was shown as Snape saw the downfall to the relationship to himself and Harry potters mother. The battle between harry and Voldemort was truly disappointing as the director changed the engagement into battle between the two (and other main factors that I will not spoil for people reading this review). The positioning of Hagrid's whereabouts in the film pretty much show how poorly adapted the book was. They didn't even put in the line about Neville becoming a professor at the end.

In conclusion I found the film very disappointing, I don't know why cinemas are showing it in 3D as it barely uses any 3d effects. 4*/10* A huge disappointment.

I'm taking no reserves by telling this film is awful. By far the worst film I've seen this year, and that wouldn't be if there hadn't been so much hype about it.

Every critic and every website praise this film, however I can't begin to understand how can they praise such a poor production. An irregular, cyclic, inconsistent and plot-hole-filled script, a lousy direction incapable of maintaining an action sequence long enough to have a good time and an edition work to be embarrassed (with a tighter edition you could reduce both parts into a single film). If part 1 was bad, this one kicks the bucket big time!

Acting doesn't improve too much, we still get all the wooden performances we're used to and the same plot line is filled with clichés and things we've seen over and over again. It's to admire the ability of J.K. Rowling to develop intriguing situations and by the same time her incapability to resolve them with wit and style.

The action sequences just pass by, the plot line is pitiful, the final battle doesn't leave a mark and the epilogue is completely unnecessary.

Maybe I'm insane, and maybe everyone will think I'm out of line by giving this film 1 star out of 10, but when you grow up admiring the greatest fantasy and sci-fi sagas ever made (either in the film or book industry) like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Dune, Blade Runner and the Neverending Story, you'll know Harry Potter just doesn't have enough to be in the same rank as them.

It was an amazing title for an amazing book. Even though I was a fan of the "Lord of the Rings" and I never was actually into "Harry Potter", I believed in the power of this author and this masterpiece; after reading the book. Extra-ordinary work of character development, relations and creativity. Extra-ordinary work of humour , fantasy and imagination. The power of mankind in terms of how different could it be from other creatures in expansion of such beautiful art-works was observable within this book. Oh, Should I write about the Movie here? Well I have to confess like this: It was just the best way of spoiling such an amazing novel.

I'm so glad the last Potter film is finally over with and there will be no more of these big budget, boring movies. There was nothing in this sequel that I liked; no memorable moments or funny scenes. It was all bland, and that is such a shame since the books were so good. The Potter movies just got worse as it went along. And in this movie there wasn't even good special effects. Like in the beginning, Harry, Hermione, and Ron use magic to disguise themselves to break into a vault at the goblin bank. That's already been done in the series. It just wasn't interesting.

Plus, I've never any of the actors in these movies have been very good.

FINAL VERDICT: I'm so glad it's over and no more Potter films.

This film is absolutely brilliant. The makers of the Harry Potter franchise finally pulled themselves together, and made something awesome. I am a huge fan of the books, but I haven't been a real fan of the films, because they've been constantly disappointing me. I've read all the books at least five times, so I now them almost word for word, so maybe that's why the other films (especially the fourth one) were such disappointments for me. But this one, the eighth film in the series, was everything I could hope for.

It was true to the book, the visuals were striking, the acting was over the top, the music was moving and the script was (finally) well-adapted. Maybe all these things are due to the fact that J. K. Rowling was an executive producer on this. I liked that there were some funny moments and some extra action in the movie which weren't in the book, but I missed one thing they left out. I won't tell you what it is, because I don't want to spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it yet (shame on you! go see it).

I'm glad John Williams didn't come back for this film to compose, Alexandre Desplat's music is so full of emotions and has great tunes. I actually cried at one scene (because of the music and Alan Rickman's great acting), although films don't usually have that effect on me anymore.

All in all the film was great fun, in some way better than the book, so for a Potter fan it's a must see.

This movie is way too dark, literally. I can't see a d*mn thing! Whole scenes have an 80% black screen. Very annoying and distracting.