Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Review

Juxtaposition: an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.


It seems almost pointless to review the newest Harry Potter film at this point. Everyone knows already weather or not you will go and see this movie, or if  the whole Potter craze does not bother you in the slightest. But here we are after more then a decade the movies are finally over, and how does the last one fair? Well simply put if your a Harry Potter fan you will love it regardless, but if your just a movie fan prepare to be disappointed.

DH Part 2 continues the story from part 1 as Harry, Ron, and Hermione continue to search for Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. Thats everything there is too part 2. And here lay the biggest problem with DH Part 2: by splitting it into two movies both of them suffer. I mentioned Juxtaposition earlier because it is what this movie needs desperately. Never is the audience given a moment to breath; instead we are given a non-stop thrill ride moving from one explosive scene to the next. Being the climax to an era in cinema one would think their would be a lot of emotional resolution, and indeed their is a few attempts at this, but every single moment is completely washed over due to the spectacle of the same boring stone hallways exploding every minute.

The movie is still fun to look at though, with colorful beams of lights flashing every way, and student's and pieces of the set exploding almost every other minute. But amiss all the carnage that film supplies you realize one thing about this movie. It lost its charm, the magic that use to fill the halls and characters of this world is gone. Watching the fights in this movie does not amount to any sort of magic or excitement; instead it is more like watching an episode of Dragon Ball Z. Some would argue that this comes with the characters growing up and becoming darker. Those people are wrong. The wonder is gone because JK Rowling wrote the last few books for the purpose of turning them into movies, not for the purpose of being a book.

The Harry Potter franchise is officially over and take that as you want too. DH Part 2 does not due the series justice due too horrible pacing and acting (except Alan Rickman like always), and a almost non-existant story. If they kept the last book as one movie it could of ended up ok, but alas greed spoiled the end to one of movies most successful franchises it ever had. Now we just have to wait for Warner Brothers to find some way to rob more money out of our pockets with this dead series.