Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. The "crime" with this J.K. Rawlings inspired adventure is four-fold: 1) Rawlings has bitten off too much (as Writer and Executive Director), 2) an over abundance of special effects doesn't make a film special, 3) working again with "Harry Potter" (2007 & 2011) director David Yates has officially proven to run it's course, and 4) way to many characters and storylines. Here, the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne "The Theory of Everything") is so confusing and time consuming that Redmayne's pouting Wizard (this character gets old fast) feels out of place and lost. Add in Johnny Depp's freaky eyed white haired arch enemy Grindelwald (who garners way to much time at the beginning of the film) and talks in whisper throughout, a son (Ezra Miller "The Perks of Being a Wallflower") who may or may not be a son, several unsupported love interests (Zoe Kravits "Mad Max," Claudia Kim "The Dark Tower," Carmen Ejogo "Selma," Katherine Waterston " Inherent Vice") and Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore (still don't know where/how this character fits into the mix) and you've got a "fantastic" mess on your hands. Wizard / J.K. Rawling enthusiast may find fulfillment here, but all others will walk away feeling a crime was committed on their senses and pocket book, and wishing they had their own magic wand to erase the experience.