What a dumb title. I know titles don't mean much other then for marketing and recognizability, but the two have nothing to do with each other. They might as well called it Fantastic Beasts: (insert title here), would have made more sense. Actually now I think of it, the title does represent one thing about this movie...it's a jumbled mess. It's another one of those films that can't just focus on one main storyline. The film has 3 or 4 pointless subplots, resulting in the film having very little to do with Grindlewald, you know, the name that's in the title of the movie? David Ayers as a director is clearly running out of steam. He did a marvelous job with Deathly Hollows Part 2, and did a good job with the first Fantastic Beasts film, that was more focused and actually enjoyable to watch. This was a snoozer, none of the storylines were interesting, too many characters I have no interest in, the few action scenes that occur are short lived, the final "battle" is lame, and this film relies heavily on exposition. Talking, talking, talking, and more talking with nothing interesting for me to really get invested. Now understand this, I am not a Potterhead, so maybe I'm missing something here. But I do like the Harry Potter world, I love Deathly Hollows Part 2, and Goblet of Fire, but this is probably the worst of all of the Potter universe films. Now let's talk about the elephant in the room...Johnny Depp as Grindlewald himself. Admittedly, he was the thing I was looking forward to, I was thinking if nothing else, at least Depp can keep me entertained. Well, the problem is...he's barely in it! But when he is on screen I was a bit underwhelmed. He didn't give that electrifying performance like Heath Ledger or even Ralph Fiennes. Not that I'm asking for Depp to outdo them, that's tough, but I felt Johnny Depp was just playing Johnny Depp, in that he had a bit of some Jack Sparrow-isms, almost like Depp played an evil version of Sparrow with different hair and not as comical. Depp was not the best choice for Grindlewald. So, now that I've trashed on this film, what do I like? The visuals are great, the costuming and makeup are well done, but on par with the first film, because all of those things in the first film were well done too. Jude Law as Dumbledore gave the best performance out of all the actors, though he too was underused. And the relationship between Redmayne's and Fogler's characters is pretty good. Other then those things, I would say this film is sadly for me a total skip. I have never given a Harry Potter film a bad review and it's sad to see this happen, but it had to happen at some point. One the flip side, it took 10 films to finally make a bad film, that's not bad. Neither Star Wars or Lord of the Rings can say that. If you are a massive Potterhead and you can understand the underlying stuff, and get into the politics of the film, then you may enjoy it, but for a regular film fan, sorry, I can't recommend it.