It was fine... it looked pretty, they obviously put some time into the visuals. But this was half of a movie, with half of a movie's worth or plot. I'm so tired of these cash grab movies that spread 1 movie's worth of plot in to 3 movies to earn as much money as possible. This movie doesn't even have an ending, it just rolls credits when they meet their time requirement, or at least that's what it feels like.

People like me paid full price to see only half of a movie with a bunch of filler to make it feature length. Stop charging us full price for half movies. Just make the whole movie from the beginning. If your going to make sequels that's fine, but each film should be a complete story in and of itself. This movie is not a complete story.

All that said the first half of this story was alright. The visual effects were good and the world being built is a refreshingly dark turn on the lighter world built up in the Harry Potter movies (at least the earlier ones).

I feel that adding Dumbledore to this story is unnecessary. I get what they're trying to do but whenever you put a character like that into a prequel, you remove the significance of any peril that character might find themself in. Since you know they couldn't possibly die. But Jude Law is great, so I'm not too put out about that.

If this movie had at least some semblance of resolution st the end of the film it would have scored higher. But it felt to me like a 2 part VHS movie that missing the second tape.