Without a doubt the most highly anticipated movie of the summer. Obviously needs to go on the blog. Please note I did not read the book, so all comparisons can get wiped away so we can just review the movie. And maybe that's the problem with the entire series of movies. There is such a hype from the that the movies can in no way match.
But there is also a problem with some of the younger actors. Danial Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint strain through most of the movie to get their lines out. It is apparent that the three leads are tired of playing the same character and are looking to move on to bigger and brighter things. The only possible exception to the big three is Rupert Grint whose humor really helps the movie in the first half. However the movie doesn't seem to move onto anything in the second half.
A big theme through the first half of the movie is young love as the actors are supposed to be dealing with raging harmones. And the movie does supply that in spades, and maybe even too long as we are looking for a showdown the entire movie. But Ralph Fiennes as the dark lord makes a very brief apperance in the movie. He is insted replaced by a couple younger actors in Hero Fiennes and Frank Dillane who have not been lost in the series yet and give off a creepy performance as we see the beginnings of the evil one. Not only do they do well but all the adult actors are fantastic. Most notably Alan Rickman and Jim Broadbent who turn in fantastic performances.
The audience keeps waiting for the battle but it never seems to come. And they will have to wait another summer. This movie will no doubt have people talking, but its mostly them wanting more as you walk out of the theater feeling unsatisfied. Don't worry there is still 2 more movies from one more book. Still plenty of Harry on the big screen, sorry Danny.
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