The first Fantastic beasts film is ok, nearing good status. It's an entertaining and well acted film with nice effects and movie sets but it's not very memorable and the plot is a touch of a letdown.

Eddie Redmayne does a good job of playing Newt and his accompanying actors Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol and Dan Fogler all do well and have fairly interesting characters as well. Unfortunately I found quite a few of the side characters disappointing and the main villain played by Colin Farrell whilst well acted wasn't intimidating or threatening, more like a businessman.

The plot's alright but nothing special, although it was fun to see all the magical animals and I did like the setting of some scenes, obviously a lot of effort went into making them. An annoying lack of action too.

6/10: Good