Rating: 3/5
There truly has never been a franchise like Harry Potter. Seven full-length books turned into eight feature films that have been released over the past 10 years, all with one cast telling one story. After part two of this epic finale, the story won't just be ending, but the franchise will as well.
Harry Potter 7 Part One features everyone's favorite boy wizard still on the hunt for the thing that will destroy Voldemort forever. The Death Eaters are on the move, family members are hurt, and in all this is the end of puberty.
Yes, the obnoxious girl troubles that took up 99.9 percent of the last movie are still there, but thankfully not as prominent. However, this time David Yates focuses on the whining of the three main characters. Instead of moving on, there are several scenes simply dedicated to developing characters everyone already knows and loves.
My main problem with both this movie and all the HP's since HP4 has been Ray Fiennes as Voldemort. He talks like an effeminate man with a whole in his throat and just overall isn't threatening to me. He just talks about killing Harry and barely shows his noseless face in real action. Speaking of that, the action scenes here are pretty good. Instead of just having Death Eaters blow crap up, they're really organized now and attack like they are truly dangerous.
The cinematography is quite good, the acting is the same as usual, the writing is good, Emma Watson is still very pretty, but for some reason, the special effects haven't improved since the second one. Dobby and Kreacher look EXACTLY THE SAME as they did in their respective first appearances. Anyway, while this isn't the worst Harry Potter (HP6 takes that one), it's definitely not the best either (that's HP3). As someone who's read the books and seen every movie, I'm kind of tired of it. Go see it just to complete the saga.
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