As someone who has never read the books from the Harry Potter series, nor seen many of the movies, I was not expecting to find the most recent addition to the franchise, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 of 2," to be any good.
It did, however, exceed the expectation.
The story line followed the typical continuation of any series, with action at every turn to hook the viewers in. Following the death of Dumbledore from the previous film, as well as the return of the Dark Lord Voldemort, Potter and his friends are forced to flee from their homes from the hounds of darkness. Constantly on the run, Potter and his two closest friends, Ron Weasley (played by Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (played by Emma Watson), must set out on their own in hopes of finding the Holocruxes and destroying the Dark Lord.
As someone who has missed quite a number of movies, it was a complete shock to find out that Dumbledore had died in a previous movie, Moving past that quickly however, the movie was filled with action and adventure, something that the few other movies I have seen of the series severely lacked. This film did not disappoint, with an amazing balance of action and adventuring, and plenty of storyline and plot development to keep the die hard Potter fans in the theater happy.
There was however, a massive amount of comedy throughout the movie. While that was not necessarily a terrible direction for the movie to take, simply the vast amount of comedy did seem to be a bit much at times.
Likewise, some parts of the movie had a large amount of plot and no action, while others had a lot of action and very little plot. It seemed like there could have been a better balance throughout the movie, but then that may not have been quite the Harry Potter that the diehard fans had come to know and love.
The only complaint that I had was, as someone that clearly has not spent a lot of time thinking, reading or watching anything related to the franchise, I was completely lost for most of the movie, recognizing few of the characters and completely behind on the storyline. There were some explanations and flashbacks later on in the movie, but not enough to catch anyone up on what exactly they missed.
Not a great movie to start with, but still a decent movie, surpassing my expectations for a Friday afternoon. I rate the movie 4.5 stars out of 5.
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