Ok, so my fiancé and I saw the movie on opening day, and the reason why it took so long to make this review, was that I was trying to decipher what I saw. So here it goes… Let me start with the trailer first. Though there were many trailers made for this highly anticipated movie, the primary one I saw that advertised “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” had clips from Part 2 in it. Don’t ask me to rememberwhich trailer, but I remember there being one, which pissed me off… Now, for the movie.
Though I enjoyed the movie somewhat, as anyone who had read the books or saw the previous movies would, I did not appreciate the fact that it was not “new fan friendly movie,” as in someone who has not watched any previous movies or read books. It would be very confusing for someone not familiar with the series. A lot of the plot of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1″ is pretty much the attempt to find and destroy a series of horcruxes, and running away from Voldemort’s death eaters in the process. If you don’t have a clue about what horcruxes are, or what they pertain to, you might as well stop reading this review, and go rent the series or read the books to catch up.
David Yates returns to the Potter series in his third time directing in the series, and does a pretty good job. As a matter of fact, opening weekend, Yates managed to direct the movie to $125,017,372, making it the 6th highest grossing weekend for a single movie in the country.
Bill Nighy sets the tone for HP7 as Minister Rufus Scrimgeour, when he stares into your soul, saying “These are dark times, there is no denying it. Our world has never faced a greater threat.” What the minister is basically trying to say is that Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) is that much closer to total domination. The only things that stand in his way now with Dumbledore out of the way is Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), who must be killed by Voldemort personally, Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), and the horcruxes.
Each of the three main characters turn in their own well-played performances, which are more equalized than in previous films. Grint and Watson, as an example, are able to develop their on-screen romance. The film reveals some passionate moments, particularly in one almost brutal sequence between Harry and Hermione’s characters. Fiennes as the Dark Lord turns in a bone-chilling, shaking in my boots performance.
With Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the hands of the Jihad of Magic, Harry, Ron, and Hermoine have to run out into the world, blindly might I add, as they look for the remaining horcruxes, meanwhile remaining “invisible” to the world, which has proven rather difficult.
One of the pleasures of the “Harry Potter” series, has been watching these three actors grow up from film to film. This one, however, shows the more emo side to the trio. I will not go into details, because that would be a spoiler, and I try to steer clear from that. Let’s just say I wanted to call Jerry Springer halfway through the movie.
Overall, I would rate “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1″ a 3.5 out of 5. It is simply the darkest and least exciting of all the Potter adventures to date in the beginning to the end of the series. Halfway through the movie, I felt like they were playing a game of “let’s go get lost in the woods.” The trailer mix-up didn’t help too much either. It just wasn’t as epic as it was advertised to be.
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