The "Motion Picture Buff" would like to present his seventh installment in the reviews of the "Harry Potter" series. This review is of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One." In this film, Harry Potter actually has decided not to go back to school, but begin his journey on finding and destroying Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. So panic of course ensues, and the war against Voldemort is beginning to heat up.
Shall we start with the positives for this review? So again, like in almost every "Harry Potter" review, I say that the trio are becoming better and better actors. Well it continues in this film also. Dan, Emma, and Rupert have become fantastic actors. They really are Harry, Hermione, and Ron. They just pull off there characters greatly. It probably has something to do with the fact that they played these characters for 10 years. Rupert does have a somewhat shining moment in this film, and I thought he pulled it off fabulously. The rest of the cast does great and a new addition is Bill Nighy as Rufus Scrimgeour. He also does a great job. Ralph Fiennes is still AMAZING as Lord Voldemort. Now David Yates returns as director again for this installment and he does a great job with the movie I think. He keeps what is sort of a slow-paced story line somewhat interesting. There is one regret I will say later though. Moving on . . . I don't know what it is with the cinematography of these last few films, but I do love this movies cinematography. There is also this one scene that Emma has to narrate a story within a book connected to the story. They used animation to display the story to us . . . let me just say that I LOVED this part in the film. It was just fun, creative, and just entertaining. Now I usually don't like when they add scenes into a film where they are actually cutting thing out, but in this film they added one scene that I loved between Dan and Emma. This scene is very controversial but I loved it. In "Part One" here they picked up a new composer for the franchise and let me just say I now love, Alexandre Desplat's work. He added something to the franchise that was never there before.
We now move onto some negatives from this film. The real main negative is that this movie changes its pace frequently. In some spots it is so slow and boring. You just want something to happen, but when something does happen it doesn't last long. The action sequences are just super quick and rushed which angers me. The film also didn't do a great job of explaining some things, and for people who haven't seen the movie they might get really confused really quick. Now another thing is that this movie is supposed to be a dark film . . . in a sense it is but it just doesn't have that feeling displayed at the strength it should . . . right until the end though. I hope you get what I mean there?
So all-in-all another great edition into the "Harry Potter" series. What is it going to get though? Well of course it is a must-see film, and it is "of course" a Blu-Ray buy worthy. It is a sufficient popcorn flick, and I forgot to mention the score is buy worthy also. You will enjoy this if you are of either the book, movies, or both. As for the rating out of five, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One" will receive a 3.5/5 rating.
Well thanks for reading my loyal readers. I hope that you have enjoyed the seventh installment in the reviews of the "Harry Potter" series. The eighth and final review should be up tonight, so stay tuned for that. If you need to catch up on the "Harry Potter" reviews click the title of the one(s) you haven't read: "Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, and Half-Blood Prince." Again thanks for viewing, it means a lot, but make sure you stay tuned for more . . . coming soon.
The Motion Picture Buff
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