The film adaptation of the final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is split into two parts, with this movie being Part I. We see Harry, Ron and Hermoine scramble to find the rest of the Horcruxes to get a shot at defeating Voldemort, whose powers have since grown and who has taken over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts.

The beginning of the movie consisted of a bunch of wizards helping Harry escape Hogwarts, away from the Deatheaters, which results in some magical action and sophisticated visual effects. Afterward, much of the rest of the movie falls flat; while there is a large cast of characters in the movie, Harry, Ron, and Hermione consume most of the picture, resulting in mostly them sitting in the mountains away from Hogwarts struggling with their angst and anger over and over about their friendship and their uncertainty levels of surviving the Voldermort assaults. This coupled with the lack of magic, action and suspenseful adventures rendered the movie totally boring.

The so-called love/romantic scenes involving Harry and Hermoine and a wedding scene sways away from the film and served no real purpose. The scenes with the Weasley Family attempting to fend off some Deatheaters were pretty exciting, but those were one of but a very few action scenes in the film.

Overall, while you do see the deep emotional impact the events from the previous film had left on the wizards, what you get in this film is few action and just lots of talk, preaching and uninteresting drama. It would have been better if the filmmakers had fitted the entire novel into one film instead of two.

Grade D